prophet. See App-49.
more than. far more than.
A prophet? - He next asks whether they went to see a prophet. They had regarded him as such, and Jesus tells them that in this their apprehension...
John the Baptist ( Luke 7:18-35 ). In place of Mk.'s narrative of John, deferred to ch. 14, Mt. gives material from Q. Matthew 11:2-6 . John's...
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. A prophet? yea - and more than a prophet - That is, one mor...
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Disciples of the Baptist 1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started on their mission about five weeks before the se...
The praise of John the Baptist ( Luke 7:24 ). Lest the purpose of the question of John, 'Art thou he that should come?' should be misunderstood, Je...
RV 'But wherefore went ye out? To see a prophet?' More than a prophet ] John was more than a prophet, (1) because of his personal relation to Jesus...
What went ye out for to see? A prophet? — The words again throw the hearers back upon the impressions made on them when they first saw and heard th...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1-30 ; Matthew 12:1-50 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1-30 HITHERTO almost everything has been...
How Doubts May Be Solved Matthew 11:1-10 The Baptist was languishing in a gloomy dungeon in the castle of Machaerus, on the farther shores of t...
This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John made as dire...
But what went ye out for to see? .... Since it was not any thing so mean as a shaking reed, or so grand as a man in gay clothing, pray what was it y...
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. Ver. 9. And more than a prophet ] Because he pointed ou...
And as they departed Or, as Luke has it, when they were departed, Jesus began to say concerning John What he would not say concerning him in the...
Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the prison, but he i...
Christ's Testimony of John. 7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the m...
Ver. 7-9. Luke repeating the same story, Luke 7:24-26 , instead of they that wear soft clothing, saith, they that are gorgeously apparelled, a...
The Messiah Has Come, And One Who Is More Than the Messiah, Overcoming the Powers of Satan, And While Rejected By The Many He Is Revealing Himself A...
Jesus Expresses His Full Appreciation of John But Points Out That Now Something Even Greater Has Come, The Coming In Force Of The Kingly Rule of Hea...
“But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet.” Why then did they go out into the wilderness? Was it to...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 11:7 . And as they departed , etc.—Dr. Plumptre holding that the Baptist himself was really in doubt, and sent his discip...
Matthew 11:1 . And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in the...
Matthew 11:1-3 . And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in t...
Matthew 11:3 . Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another. Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not doubt, after seei...
What went ye out into the wilderness to see? The attractiveness of John the Baptist What is it in human character that exerts the most powerful...
EXPOSITION Matthew 11:1 Matthew only. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end. The same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28 ; Matthe...
Christ's Testimony Concerning John.
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Luke 1:15-17 ; Luke 1:76 ; Matthew 11:13 ; Matthew 11:14 ; Matthew 14:5 ; Matthew 17:12 ; Matthew 17:13 ; Matthew 21:24-26 ; Mark 9:11-13
More than a prophet — For the prophets only pointed me out afar off; but John was my immediate forerunner.
9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.