So John called two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Mt. 11:2-19. I. We have here the message John Baptist sent to Christ, and the return he made to it. Observe, 1.
Commenting on Luke 7:19-35
When the men were come to him,.... To Jesus; "those two men", as the Arabic version reads; "the disciples", as the Persic version; the same that John sent from the castle of Machaerus, where he was now a prisoner, to Christ, who was teaching in some city or town of Galilee: they said, John the Baptist; so well known by his being the administrator of...
Verses 19-35. through Matthew 11:19. Verse 19. No specific Barnes text on this verse. (k) "And John, calling" .