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

¹¹ Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Common English Bible

¹¹ “I assure you that no one who has ever been born is greater than John the Baptist. Yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Amen I say to you, among those born of women, there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 11:11 Cross References

Job 14:1

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 30:26

Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

Zechariah 12:8

On that day the Lord will put a shield about the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, at their head.

Matthew 11:10

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.’

Matthew 11:12

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by force.

Matthew 3:1

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Matthew 5:19

Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:15

for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

Luke 7:28

I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

Luke 9:48

and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me; for he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

John 1:15

(John bore witness to him, and cried, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.’ ”)

John 1:27

even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”

John 10:41

And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”

John 3:30

He must increase, but I must decrease.”

John 5:35

He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

John 7:39

Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

1 Corinthians 15:9

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 6:4

If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church?

Ephesians 2:3

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

2 Timothy 1:10

and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Hebrews 11:40

since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

1 Peter 1:10

The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation;

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.