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But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more than a prophet.
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For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
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Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser 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 bear it away.
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For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John:
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And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.
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He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.
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Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.
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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 man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.