Matthew 11:2 Cross References - MNT

² But when John heard, in the prison, what the Christ was doing, he sent by some of his disciples to ask him,

¹⁷ So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen; from David to the exile to Babylon is fourteen; and from the exile to Babylon to Christ is fourteen.

¹² Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.

¹⁴ At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

³ For Herod had apprehended John, shackled him, and thrust him into prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

¹⁷ Now this Herod had sent and arrested John, and bound him in prison, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married.

¹⁹ but Herod, the Tetrarch, when reproved by him because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the wicked deeds that he had done,

¹⁸ John's disciples brought him word of all these things ¹⁹ and, calling a certain two disciples to him, he sent them to Jesus, to say, "Are you 'the coming one,' or if we are to expect another?" ²⁰ So the men came to Jesus and said, "John the Baptist has sent us to ask you if you are the coming one, or if we are to expect another." ²¹ At that moment Jesus was healing many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he was freely giving their sight. ²² So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings. ²³ "And blessed is he who finds no cause of stumbling in me." ²⁴ When John's messengers were gone he began to speak to the crowds about John, saying, "What went out you out to the desert to behold? A reed shaken by the wind? ²⁵ "But what you went out to behold? A man clothed in soft robes? Behold, men who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are in kings' palaces. ²⁶ "But what went you to see? A prophet? ²⁷ "Yes, I tell you and more than a prophet. This is he who it is written. "Behold I send a messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee. ²⁸ "I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he." ²⁹ On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John; ³⁰ but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves. ³¹ "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? ³² "To What are they like, they are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another. "'We have piped to you,' they say, 'and you have not danced; we have wailed, and you did not cry.' ³³ "For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!' ³⁴ "The son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!' ³⁵ "Nevertheless, wisdom is justified by all her children."

²⁴ (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.) ²⁵ Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him. ²⁶ "Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him." ²⁷ In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

¹ Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

¹ Now it happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the hinterland, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples. ² "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" he asked them. "No" said they, "we did not even hear that there is a Holy Spirit." ³ "Into what, then, were you baptized?" he asked. And they said, "Into the baptism of John."