Jesus directed John’s students simply to report back to him what they had heard and seen around Jesus: “The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are revived, and the poor hear some real good news.” Then he added, in beatitude language, “And blessed are those who are not disappointed with me” (Matt. 11:4–6). The word here translated “blessed,” makarios, is the same as that used in Matthew 5 and Luke 6. It refers to the highest type of well-being possible for human beings, but it is also the term the Greeks used for the kind of blissful existence
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