Matthew 21:11 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 21:11

The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the multitudes said, This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.

KJV

And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

While others were in doubt or enquiring, the worthless multitude confessed Him; But the people said, This is Jesus the Prophet from Nazareth in Galilee. (Ps. 24:8.) They begin with the lesser that they may come to the greater. They hail Him as that Prophet whom Moses had said should come like to himself, (Deut. 15:18.) which is rightly written in Greek with the testimony of the article, (ὁ προφήτες.) From Nazareth of Galilee, for there He had been brought up, that the flower of the field might be nourished with the flower of all excellencies.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

This is Jesus from Nazareth - What a stumbling block was this! if he was of Nazareth, he could not be the Messiah. But they who earnestly desired to know the truth would not stumble thereat: for upon inquiry (which such would not fail to make) they would find, he was not of Nazareth, but Bethlehem.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

This is Jesus The Prophet - Ο προφητης That prophet whom Moses spoke of, Deu 18:18. I will raise them up a prophet - like unto thee, etc. Every expression of the multitude plainly intimated that they fully received our blessed Lord as the promised Messiah. - How strange is it that these same people (if the creatures of the high priest be not only intended) should, about five days after, change their hosannas for, Away with him! crucify him! crucify him! How fickle is the multitude!

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οἱ	Hoi	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
ὄχλοι	ochloi	the crowds	G3793 →
ἔλεγον·	elegon	were saying;	G3004 →
οὗτός	houtos	This	G3778 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
προφήτης	prophētēs	prophet	G4396 →
Ἰησοῦς,	Iēsous	Jesus,	G2424 →
ὁ	ho	the [One]	G3588 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
Ναζαρὲθ	Nazareth	Nazareth	G3478 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Γαλιλαίας.¶	Galilaias	of Galilee.	G1056 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 6:14
When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:15–18
  The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
- John 1:21
  “Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 7:37
  This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
- Matthew 11:3
  to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
- Genesis 49:10
  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Through
Matthew 2:23
and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
leads to
- Judges 13:5
  For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will…
- John 1:45–46
  Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
Through
Luke 7:16
A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”
leads to
- Matthew 9:8
  When the crowds saw this, they were filled with awe and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.