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What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
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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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I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
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(When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John;
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but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
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"To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?
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They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, 'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.'
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For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, 'He has a demon.'
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The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, 'Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
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Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
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One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house, and took his place at table.