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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Matthew 11 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Matthew 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/10.htm" title="Matthew 10">◄</a> Matthew 11 <a href="../matthew/12.htm" title="Matthew 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/matthew/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus and John the Baptist</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek in their towns">a</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Go back and report to John what you hear and see:</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.">b</a></sup></span> are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: <span class="red">“What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings’ palaces.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">This is the one about whom it is written:</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="red">“ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">who will prepare your way before you.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Mal. 3:1">c</a></sup></span> </span></p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or been forcefully advancing">d</a></sup></span> and violent people have been raiding it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">Whoever has ears, let them hear.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:</span></p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">“ ‘We played the pipe for you,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and you did not dance;</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">we sang a dirge,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and you did not mourn.’</span></p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Woe on Unrepentant Towns</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the realm of the dead">e</a></sup></span> For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">The Father Revealed in the Son</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>At that time Jesus said, <span class="red">“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Greek <i>in their towns</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word traditionally translated <i>leprosy</i> was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Mal. 3:1</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>been forcefully advancing</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, the realm of the dead</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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