Matthew 11:11
ContextNETBible | “I tell you the truth, 1 among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least 2 in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is. |
XREF | 1Sa 2:30; Job 14:1,4; Job 15:14; Job 25:4; Ps 51:5; Isa 30:26; Zec 12:8; Mt 3:11; Mt 5:19; Lu 1:15; Lu 7:28; Lu 9:48; Joh 1:15,27; Joh 3:30; Joh 5:35; Joh 7:39; Joh 10:41; Ro 16:25,26; 1Co 6:4; 1Co 15:9; Eph 2:3; Eph 3:8; Col 1:26,27; 2Ti 1:10; Heb 11:40; 1Pe 1:10 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.” 2 sn After John comes a shift of eras. The new era is so great that the lowest member of it (the one who is least in the kingdom of God) is greater than the greatest one of the previous era. |