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MAT 11:1–11:19 ©

This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Yeshua and Yohan-the-immerser

11:1 Yeshua and Yohan-the-immerser

(Luke 7:18-35)

11When Yeshua had finished giving those instructions to his twelve apprentices, he also left there and went to teach and preach in the Jewish cities.

2Then Yohan, who was in prison, heard about what the messiah was doing, he sent some of his apprentices 3to ask Yeshua, “Are you the promised one, or should we be waiting for someone else?”

4Well,Yeshua answered, “go and tell Yohan everything that you’re hearing and seeing: 5[ref]those who were blind can see now, lame people are now walking, people will leprosy are ‘clean’, deaf people can now hear, dead people have been brought back to life, and the good message is being preached to the poor. 6Anyone who’s not embarrassed by me will be blessed.

7As Yohan’s apprentices left, Yeshua started talking to the crowd about Yohan: “What was it that you all went out to the wilderness to see? A reed being blown around by the wind?[fn] 8Yes, what did you all go out to see? A man wearing fine clothes? People in palaces wear fine clothes. 9So why did you go out there? To see a prophet? Yes, I’m telling you that he is a prophet, and even more important than the prophets. 10[ref]He is the one that was written about: ‘See, I’m sending out my messenger ahead of you and he’ll prepare your path before you.’ 11I can assure you that no person who’s ever been born is greater than Yohan-the-immerser. But even the least important person in the kingdom of heavens is greater than him. 12[ref]From the time of Yohan-the-immerser through to the present time, the kingdom of the heavens has been opposed, and the opposition is grabbing at it. 13All the prophets and the law prophesied before Yohan came, 14[ref]and now, if you’re all willing to believe it, he is Eliyyah—the one who would come ahead. 15Anyone who is willing, let them strive to understand this.

16So what should I liken this generation to? It’s like young children sitting in the town centre who are calling out to others 17and saying, ‘We played lively music for you but you didn’t dance. Then we played sad music, but you didn’t mourn.’ 18Because Yohan came and he wasn’t eating or drinking, and they said, ‘He’s possessed by a demon!’ 19Then humanity’s child came and he was eating and drinking, but they said, ‘Look at this fellow—he’s a glutton and a drunkard—a friend of tax collectors and immoral people.’ But wisdom is only recognised with hindsight.


11:7 We’ve left the original idiom here in the OET-RV as something to puzzle over, because no one now really knows what aspect of Yohan’s behaviour or appearance that Yeshua was referring to here.


11:5: a Isa 35:5-6; b Isa 61:1.

11:10: Mal 3:1.

11:12-13: Luk 16:16.

11:14: Mal 4:5; Mat 17:10-13; Mrk 9:11-13.

MAT 11:1–11:19 ©

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