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Matthew 11:10

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11:10This is the one about whom it is written:

‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,16

who will prepare your way before you.’17

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Footnotes

  1. 16 Grk “before your face” (an idiom).
  2. 17 The quotation is primarily from Mal 3:1 with pronouns from Exod 23:20. Here is the forerunner who points the way to the arrival of God’s salvation. His job is to prepare and guide the people, as the cloud did for Israel in the desert.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

This is he of whom it is written,

“ ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face,

who will prepare your way before you.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

This is the one about whom it is written:

“ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you,

who will prepare your way before you.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

This is the one about whom it is written:

See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;

he will prepare your way before you.

NLTNew Living Translation

John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say,

‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,

and he will prepare your way before you.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

It is this man about whom it is written:

‘Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face,

who will prepare your way before you.’

KJV 1900King James Version

For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.