Matthew 11:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ Why did you go out [to the desert]? To see a prophet? Yes, I should say [he was], and much more than a prophet.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ But wherefore went ye out? to see a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

Common English Bible

⁹ What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Matthew 11:9 Cross References

Luke 1:76

Yes, you [my] child [i.e., John], will be called the prophet of the Highest [i.e., God], for you will go ahead of the Lord’s presence to prepare His ways.

Matthew 14:5

Now Herod wanted to have him put to death, [but hesitated], fearing the crowd, because they considered John to be a prophet.

Matthew 11:8

What did you expect to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, people who wear fancy clothes live in kings’ palaces.

Luke 20:6

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