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# Matthew 11

Matthew 11 is chapter 11 of 28 in the Gospel of Matthew. Here are all 30 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> John sends his disciples to Christ, who upbraids the Jews for their incredulity, and calls to him such as are sensible of their burdens.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Matthew 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And it happened that, when Jesus had completed instructing his twelve disciples, he went away from there in order to teach and to preach in their cities.
2. Now when John had heard, in prison, about the works of Christ, sending two of his disciples, he said to him,
3. “Are you he who is to come, or should we expect another?”
4. And Jesus, responding, said to them: “Go and report to John what you have heard and seen.
5. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor are evangelized.
6. And blessed is he who has found no offense in me.”
7. Then, after they departed, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
8. So what did you go out to see? A man in soft garments? Behold, those who are clothed in soft garments are in the houses of kings.
9. Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
10. For this is he, of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.’
11. Amen I say to you, among those born of women, there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12. But from the days of John the Baptist, even until now, the kingdom of heaven has endured violence, and the violent carry it away.
13. For all the prophets and the law prophesied, even until John.
14. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah, who is to come.
15. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
16. But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace,
17. who, calling out to their companions, say: ‘We played music for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not mourn.’
18. For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
19. The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, ‘Behold, a man who eats voraciously and who drinks wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is justified by her sons.”
20. Then he began to rebuke the cities in which many of his miracles were accomplished, for they still had not repented.
21. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in haircloth and ashes.
22. Yet truly, I say to you, Tyre and Sidon shall be forgiven more than you, on the day of judgment.
23. And you, Capernaum, would you be exalted all the way to heaven? You shall descend all the way to Hell. For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, perhaps it would have remained, even to this day.
24. Yet truly, I say to you, that the land of Sodom shall be forgiven more than you, on the day of judgment.”
25. At that time, Jesus responded and said: “I acknowledge you, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones.
26. Yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you.
27. All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.
28. Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.
29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.
30. For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”

## Matthew 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et factum est, cum consummasset Jesus, præcipiens duodecim discipulis suis, transiit inde ut doceret, et prædicaret in civitatibus eorum.
2. Joannes autem cum audisset in vinculis opera Christi, mittens duos de discipulis suis,
3. ait illi: Tu es, qui venturus es, an alium exspectamus?
4. Et respondens Jesus ait illis: Euntes renuntiate Joanni quæ audistis, et vidistis.
5. Cæci vident, claudi ambulant, leprosi mundantur, surdi audiunt, mortui resurgunt, pauperes evangelizantur:
6. et beatus est, qui non fuerit scandalizatus in me.
7. Illis autem abeuntibus, cœpit Jesus dicere ad turbas de Joanne: Quid existis in desertum videre? arundinem vento agitatam?
8. Sed quid existis videre? hominem mollibus vestitum? Ecce qui mollibus vestiuntur, in domibus regum sunt.
9. Sed quid existis videre? prophetam? Etiam dico vobis, et plus quam prophetam.
10. Hic est enim de quo scriptum est: Ecce ego mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam, qui præparabit viam tuam ante te.
11. Amen dico vobis, non surrexit inter natos mulierum major Joanne Baptista: qui autem minor est in regno cælorum, major est illo.
12. A diebus autem Joannis Baptistæ usque nunc, regnum cælorum vim patitur, et violenti rapiunt illud.
13. Omnes enim prophetæ et lex usque ad Joannem prophetaverunt:
14. et si vultis recipere, ipse est Elias, qui venturus est.
15. Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.
16. Cui autem similem æstimabo generationem istam? Similis est pueris sedentibus in foro: qui clamantes coæqualibus
17. dicunt: Cecinimus vobis, et non saltastis: lamentavimus, et non planxistis.
18. Venit enim Joannes neque manducans, neque bibens, et dicunt: Dæmonium habet.
19. Venit Filius hominis manducans, et bibens, et dicunt: Ecce homo vorax, et potator vini, publicanorum et peccatorum amicus. Et justificata est sapientia a filiis suis.
20. Tunc cœpit exprobrare civitatibus, in quibus factæ sunt plurimæ virtutes ejus, quia non egissent pœnitentiam:
21. Væ tibi Corozain, væ tibi Bethsaida: quia, si in Tyro et Sidone factæ essent virtutes quæ factæ sunt in vobis, olim in cilicio et cinere pœnitentiam egissent.
22. Verumtamen dico vobis: Tyro et Sidoni remissius erit in die judicii, quam vobis.
23. Et tu Capharnaum, numquid usque in cælum exaltaberis? usque in infernum descendes, quia si in Sodomis factæ fuissent virtutes quæ factæ sunt in te, forte mansissent usque in hanc diem.
24. Verumtamen dico vobis, quia terræ Sodomorum remissius erit in die judicii, quam tibi.
25. In illo tempore respondens Jesus dixit: Confiteor tibi, Pater, Domine cæli et terræ, quia abscondisti hæc a sapientibus, et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis.
26. Ita Pater: quoniam sic fuit placitum ante te.
27. Omnia mihi tradita sunt a Patre meo. Et nemo novit Filium, nisi Pater: neque Patrem quis novit, nisi Filius, et cui voluerit Filius revelare.
28. Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et onerati estis, et ego reficiam vos.
29. Tollite jugum meum super vos, et discite a me, quia mitis sum, et humilis corde: et invenietis requiem animabus vestris.
30. Jugum enim meum suave est, et onus meum leve.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 240: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2632: Prayer of Petition ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 549: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2443: Love For the Poor ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 548: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 523: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 719: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 678: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 153: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2779: Abba - "Father!" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 544: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2603: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2701: Vocal prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2785: Abba - "Father!" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 473: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 151: "I Know Whom I Have Believed" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 443: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1658: The Domestic Church ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 459: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1615: Marriage in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, I.1, c. 400 (On this theme: verse 28)
- “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” — St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, III.1, 1609 (On this theme: verse 29)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: That is, who shall not take occasion of scandal or offence from my humility, and the disgraceful death of the cross which I shall endure.
- Verse 12: It is not to be obtained but by main force, by using violence upon ourselves, by mortification and penance, and resisting our perverse inclinations.
- Verse 14: Not in person, but in spirit. St. Luke 1. 17.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Oct 31, 2026: Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, Matthew 11:29ab
- Sun, Nov 1, 2026: All Saints — Alleluia, Matthew 11:28
- Tue, Nov 3, 2026: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, Matthew 11:28
- Thu, Nov 5, 2026: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, Matthew 11:28

46 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).