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9 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and one more excellent than a prophet.
10 For this is he about whom it has been written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.’
11 Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he!
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence and the violent seize it.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah, the one being about to come.
15 The one having ears, let him hear!
16 But to what will I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets and calling out to others,
17 saying: ‘We piped for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not wail.’
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold a man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her deeds.”