Matthew 11:3

11:3 “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

Matthew 18:24

18:24 As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents was brought to him.

sn Aspects of Jesus’ ministry may have led John to question whether Jesus was the promised stronger and greater one who is to come that he had preached about in Matt 3:1-12.

tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

sn A talent was a huge sum of money, equal to 6,000 denarii. One denarius was the usual day’s wage for a worker. L&N 6.82 states, “a Greek monetary unit (also a unit of weight) with a value which fluctuated, depending upon the particular monetary system which prevailed at a particular period of time (a silver talent was worth approximately six thousand denarii with gold talents worth at least thirty times that much).”