Matthew 11:10
New International Version
This is the one about whom it is written: “’I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

New Living Translation
John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’

English Standard Version
This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Berean Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

Berean Literal Bible
For this is he about whom it has been written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.'

King James Bible
For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

New King James Version
For this is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.’

New American Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘BEHOLD, I AM SENDING MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

NASB 1995
“This is the one about whom it is written, ‘BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

NASB 1977
“This is the one about whom it is written, ‘BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE YOUR FACE, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written, ‘BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

Amplified Bible
This is the one of whom it is written [by the prophet Malachi], ‘BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

Christian Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is the one it is written about: Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You; he will prepare Your way before You.

American Standard Version
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For this is he about whom it is written: 'Behold, I am sending my messenger before your presence that he may prepare the road before you.' “

Contemporary English Version
In the Scriptures God says about him, "I am sending my messenger ahead to get things ready for you."

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

English Revised Version
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
John is the one about whom Scripture says, 'I'm sending my messenger ahead of you to prepare the way in front of you.'

Good News Translation
For John is the one of whom the scripture says: 'God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.'

International Standard Version
This is the man about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

Literal Standard Version
for this is he of whom it has been written: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.

Majority Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

New American Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.’

NET Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: 'Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

New Revised Standard Version
This is the one about whom it is written, ‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

New Heart English Bible
This is the one of whom it is written, 'Look, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

Webster's Bible Translation
For this is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Weymouth New Testament
This is he of whom it is written, "'See I am sending My messenger before Thy face, and he will make Thy road ready before Thee.'

World English Bible
For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Young's Literal Translation
for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

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Context
Jesus Testifies about John
9What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. 10This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’ 11Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.…

Cross References
Malachi 3:1
"Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple--the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight--see, He is coming," says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 11:3
to ask Him, "Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

Matthew 11:11
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Mark 1:2
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: "Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way."

Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,

Luke 7:27
This is the one about whom it is written: 'Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.'


Treasury of Scripture

For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.

Matthew 3:3
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Matthew 11
1. John sends his disciples to Jesus.
7. Jesus' testimony concerning John.
16. The perverse judgment of the people concerning the Son.
20. Jesus upbraids Korazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum;
25. and praising his Father's wisdom in revealing the Gospel to the simple,
28. he calls to him those who are weary and burdened.














(10) This is he, of whom it is written.--The words in the Greek are not taken from the LXX. version of Malachi 3:1, but are a free translation from the Hebrew. In the original it is Jehovah Himself who speaks of His own coming: "Behold, I will send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me." In the Evangelist's paraphrase it is Jehovah who speaks to the Christ--"shall prepare Thy way before Thee." The reference to the prophecy of Malachi in the song of Zacharias (Luke 1:76) had from the first connected it with the Baptist's work, and our Lord in thus adopting that reference, stamps the whole chapter with the character of a Messianic prophecy.

Verse 10. - For. Omitted in the Revised Version. It is here an explanatory gloss, though genuine in Matthew 3:3. This is he, of whom it is written. Our Lord justifies his assertion of John's unique position. Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Malachi 3:1, not from the LXX., but freely from the Hebrew, which runs, "Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me." Observe in Matthew

(1) "thy way"

(2) "before thee," instead of "before me;"

(3) the first clause is made to end with nearly the same phrase as the second, Matthew's form is the more rhythmical, perhaps because of oral repetition (cf. Introduction, p. 10.). Luke (Luke 7:27), save for the omission of ἐγώ, is the same; Mark (Mark 1:2) only omits ἐγώ and "before thee." Christ does not hesitate to apply to himself a prophecy of the coming of God, nor did the early Church shrink from recording this of him. Such an application of an Old Testament passage Bengel calls "luclentissimum argumentum Deitatis Christi." (On this subject, cf. Bishop Westcott, Add. Note on Hebrews 3:7.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
This
οὗτός (houtos)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is [the one]
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

about
περὶ (peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

whom
οὗ (hou)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

it is written:
γέγραπται (gegraptai)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1125: A primary verb; to 'grave', especially to write; figuratively, to describe.

‘Behold,
Ἰδοὺ (Idou)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 2400: See! Lo! Behold! Look! Second person singular imperative middle voice of eido; used as imperative lo!

I
ἐγὼ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

will send
ἀποστέλλω (apostellō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 649: From apo and stello; set apart, i.e. to send out literally or figuratively.

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

messenger
ἄγγελόν (angelon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 32: From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor.

ahead of You,
πρὸ (pro)
Preposition
Strong's 4253: A primary preposition; 'fore', i.e. In front of, prior to.

who
Ὃς (Hos)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

will prepare
κατασκευάσει (kataskeuasei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2680: From kata and a derivative of skeuos; to prepare thoroughly; by implication, to construct, create.

Your
σου (sou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

way
ὁδόν (hodon)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3598: A way, road, journey, path. Apparently a primary word; a road; by implication, a progress; figuratively, a mode or means.

before
ἔμπροσθέν (emprosthen)
Preposition
Strong's 1715: From en and pros; in front of (literally or figuratively) or time).

You.’
σου (sou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


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