In commenting on this verse, Matthew Henry wrote: “We are here told... how the people took occasion, from the ministry and baptism of John, to think of the Messiah, and to think of him as at the door....
ששירותו של יוחנן והטבילה שהטביל סיפקו לאנשים שעת כושר להגות במשיח ולחשוב שהוא עומד בפתח....