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for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater [prophet] is no one than John [the baptist]; but he who is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
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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But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and [what is] more excellent than a prophet.
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This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;
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for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater [prophet] is no one than John [the baptist]; but he who is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
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(And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;
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but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)