11:11 “I tell you the truth, 3 among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least 4 in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.
1 sn Archelaus took after his father Herod the Great in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness, so Joseph was afraid to go there. After further direction in a dream, he went instead to Galilee.
2 sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.
3 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
4 sn After John comes a shift of eras. The new era is so great that the lowest member of it (the one who is least in the kingdom of God) is greater than the greatest one of the previous era.