Matthew 11:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

Matthew 11:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Matthew 9:14
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
Matthew 4:12
Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
Luke 7:18-35
And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. …

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Arrest Devotion Doubting Faith Imprisonment Jesus, the Christ John Prison

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The first verse of this chapter some join to the foregoing chapter, and make it (not unfitly) the close of that. 1. The ordination sermon which Christ preached to his disciples in the foregoing chapter is here called his commanding them. Note, Christ’s commissions imply commands. Their preaching of the gospel was not only permitted them, but it was enjoined them. It was not a thing respecting whic…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Now when John had heard in the prison--For the account of this imprisonment, see on Mr 6:17-20. the works of Christ, he sent, &c.--On the whole passage, see on Lu 7:18-35. The connection of this with what goes before it and the similarity of its tone make it evident, we think, that it was delivered on the same occasion, and that it is but a new and more comprehensive series of reflections in th…