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 did you go out to see? A navi? Ken, I say to you, and one more than a navi.
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This one is he about whom it has been written, HINENI SHOLEIACH MALAKHI (Behold, I send my messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your derech in front of You [Mal 3:1]).
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I say to you, among those born of isha there is no one greater than Yochanan, yet he who is least in the Malchut Hashem is greater than he.
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(And when kol haAm [all the People] and the mochesim heard this, they acknowledged the Tzidkat Hashem [Righteousness of G-d], having been submitted to the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.
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But the Perushim and the Baalei HaTorah rejected the tachlis [purpose] of Hashem for their lives, refusing the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.)
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