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MATTHEW 11:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 11Matt 11:2
“And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.”
When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, he departed to teach and preach in their cities. The transition from instruction to action communicates the relationship between teaching and ministry in Jesus' pattern: he equips the disciples and then models what he has commissioned them to do. The teaching in the towns continues the proclamation of the kingdom that began in chapter 4 — the commission to the disciples does not replace Jesus' own itinerant ministry but extends it.

Church Fathers on Matthew 11:1

The Lord having sent out His disciples to preach with the foregoing instructions, Himself now fulfils in action what He had taught in words, offering His preaching first to the Jews; 'And it came to pass when Jesus had ended all these sayings, he passed thence.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

Having sent them forth, He withdrew Himself, giving them opportunity and time to do the things that He had enjoined; for while He was present and ready to heal, no man would come to His disciples.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom, xxxvi

He well passes from the special teaching which He had delivered to His disciples, to the general which He preached in the cities; passing therein as it were from heaven to earth, that He might give light to all. By this deed of the Lord, all holy preachers are admonished that they should study to benefit all.

Remigius · 9th century
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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