Matthew 11:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Why then did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one [out of the common, more eminent, more remarkable, and] superior to a prophet.

American Standard Version (1901)

But wherefore went ye out? to see a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

Common English Bible

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But what went you out to see? a prophet? yea I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Matthew 11:9 Cross References

Matthew 11:8

Why then did you go out? To see a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses.

Matthew 14:5

And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

Luke 20:6

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”