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What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in refined clothes? Look, those who dress in fashionable clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.
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What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
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He is the one of whom it's written: Look, I'm sending my messenger before you, who will prepare your way before you.
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I tell you that no greater human being has ever been born than John. Yet whoever is least in God's kingdom is greater than he."
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Everyone who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice because they had been baptized by John.