Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 11:2
When John had heard in the prison. Compare Mark 6:14-29
Luke 7:19-28. John had now been a year in prison, to which he had
been sent by Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee, because he had
rebuked his adulterous marriage with his brother Philip's wife
(Matthew 14:1-11). Josephus says that Machaerus, a strong fortress
built by Herod the Great, the father of Antipas, about ten miles east
of the Dead Sea, was the prison.
He sent two of his disciples. To make the inquiry found in the next
verse. The course of Jesus was so different from what John himself, in
common with other Jews, expected of the Messiah, that after lying in a
dungeon for a year, he began to be uncertain. If Jesus was the Christ,
why did he not proclaim himself the Messiah King, destroy the power of
the Romans and of Herod, and release John himself from prison? So he
reasoned.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 11:2
Luke 7:18-33
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