A Question from John the Baptist

11 And it happened that when Jesus had finished giving orders to his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and to preach in their towns. Now when[a] John[b] heard in prison the deeds of Christ, he sent word[c] by his disciples and[d] said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 11:2 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 11:2 That is, John the Baptist
  3. Matthew 11:2 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Matthew 11:3 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sent” in the previous verse) has been translated as a finite verb