Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Matthew 11:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
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Quick Meaning
Blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission.
Read It With
- Matthew 11:2–11:6
Read Matthew 11:6 with 11:2–11:6. In isolation, this verse's contribution—blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: From prison John asks whether Jesus is the coming one, and Jesus answers by pointing to reported healings, restored life, and good news to the poor before blessing the unoffended.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission. This precise contribution belongs inside “John asks and Jesus points to kingdom works” because From prison John asks whether Jesus is the coming one, and Jesus answers by pointing to reported healings, restored life, and good news to the poor before blessing the unoffended.
Follow the Context
- From prison John asks whether Jesus is the coming one, and Jesus answers by pointing to reported healings, restored life, and good news to the poor before blessing the unoffended.
- John's question can express doubt, clarification, or concern about expectations; the miracle catalogue echoes Isaiah but does not answer why John remains imprisoned.
- This answer does not shame honest doubt, promise every present healing, blame disabled people, or imply that John's imprisonment lacks faith.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission—from the complete unit or override the unit's explicit boundary: This answer does not shame honest doubt, promise every present healing, blame disabled people, or imply that John's imprisonment lacks faith.
What Remains True
From prison John asks whether Jesus is the coming one, and Jesus answers by pointing to reported healings, restored life, and good news to the poor before blessing the unoffended. Matthew 11:6's proportionate contribution is this: Blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission.
How It Can Shape Life
- Matthew 11:6 contributes this specific claim: Blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission. Bring honest questions from confinement or disappointment, and answer them with truthful evidence and care rather than shaming doubt or promising that every faithful person will escape suffering.
Teach It Back
Explain how Matthew 11:6 blesses the person not offended by Jesus' actual mission. Then identify its speaker or narrator, first Jewish and scriptural setting, one affected person, the material uncertainty, and the specific conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Read Matthew 11:2–11:6 — John asks and Jesus points to kingdom worksSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 11:2–11:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 11:2–11:6
Open the Matthew Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for the expressions actually discussed in this thought unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data TAGNT rows for Matthew 11:2–11:6
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Matthew with Translators' and Textual Notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005-2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, historical, Jewish-background, and Synoptic notes for this unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Matthew PDF, printed pp. 1808-1867, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 11:2–11:6
Open source ↗open university bible study course
The Gospel of Matthew Course and Study Guides
Harold W. Attridge and Michal Beth Dinkler
Yale Bible Study, Yale Divinity School, current 2026 online edition
Supports: Critical literary orientation with source, setting, historical, and theological judgments retained as interpretations.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, course unit 'Mighty Deeds,' Matthew 9-11 study guide
Open source ↗open seminary bible study course
Matthew Course
James L. Boyce; revised by Kristofer Phan Coffman
Enter the Bible, Luther Seminary, 2023 revision
Supports: Whole-book orientation and unit placement, including visible uncertainty about authorship, date, setting, and purpose.
Exact location: Enter the Bible Matthew course, 'Summary,' 'Outline,' 'Background,' 'Introductory Issues,' 'Theological Themes,' and passage index entry for Matthew 11:2–11:6
Open source ↗open confessional commentary
Matthew
Douglas Sean O'Donnell
The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary, current 2026 online edition
Supports: One complete confessional reading checked against the text, critical scholarship, and Jewish-context controls.
Exact location: O'Donnell, online Matthew commentary, heading and paragraphs explicitly covering Matthew 11:2–11:6
Open source ↗scholarly annotated translation
Matthew, in The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Aaron M. Gale; edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
Aaron M. Gale, Matthew introduction and annotations, print pp. 1-54; related essays and sidebars in The Jewish Annotated New Testament, first edition.
Supports: Jewish setting, Scripture, Torah debate, named groups, practices, and anti-Judaism control at the passage address.
Exact location: Gale, Matthew introduction and verse-addressed annotations, first-edition print pp. 1-54, exact annotation at Matthew 11:2–11:6
Open source ↗open access scholarly monograph
The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze
Mark Goodacre
T&T Clark; author-authorized open release, 2001; open release 2011
Supports: Literary-dependence analysis with Markan priority, Two-Source/Q, Farrer, and Matthean-priority alternatives kept distinct.
Exact location: Goodacre, The Synoptic Problem, chapters 1-5, with the Synoptic parallels and order bearing on Matthew 11:2–11:6
Open source ↗