Matthew 11:1-24
Dear RTB’ers,
Matthew spends 19 of our 24 verses today with Jesus relating to John the Baptist. I often wonder how much interaction those two cousins had with each other while they were growing up. Very likely they met regularly when they were younger when their families went to Jerusalem for regularly-scheduled (triannual) temple visits. We don’t know at what age John went off to the desert and then began his ministry, but my sense is he began baptizing not long (maybe a couple of years?) before Jesus began His own ministry at age 30. So I do wonder at their interaction before they each began their ministries.
…the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. (v. 5) Here Jesus is quoting Isaiah (Isaiah 35:5-6, 61:1) It was just last month that we finished Isaiah. It’s nice to see Jesus’ connection with these passages so soon after we have read them!
Blessings!
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