For I say unto you----here is not a greater prophet The word "prophet" is left out in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, as in ( Matthew 11:11 ) . (See Gill on Matthew 11:11).
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Were you looking for a prophet? Yes, and he is more than a prophet.
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John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’
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I tell you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is!”
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When they heard this, all the people—even the tax collectors—agreed that God’s way was right, for they had been baptized by John.
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But the Pharisees and experts in religious law rejected God’s plan for them, for they had refused John’s baptism.