11:2 Now when John 2 heard in prison about the deeds Christ 3 had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question: 4
2:6 I constructed pools of water for myself,
to irrigate my grove 5 of flourishing trees.
1 sn The allusion to Sodom, the most wicked of OT cities from Gen 19:1-29, shows that to reject the current message is even more serious, and will result in more severe punishment, than the worst sins of the old era. The phrase region of Sodom is in emphatic position in the Greek text.
2 sn John refers to John the Baptist.
3 tc The Western codex D and a few other
tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
sn See the note on Christ in 1:16.
4 tc Instead of “by his disciples” (see the tn below for the reading of the Greek), the majority of later
tn Grk “sending by his disciples he said to him.” The words “a question” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
5 tn Heb “to water from them a grove” (or “forest).