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For this is he of whom it is written: `Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way before Thee.'
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Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
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And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
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For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
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And if ye will receive it, this is Elijah, who was to come.
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He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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"But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets and calling unto their fellows,
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and saying, `We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.'
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, `He hath a devil!'
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, `Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."
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Then He began to upbraid the cities wherein most of His mighty works were done, because they repented not.