Luke 7:24-30 When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind?

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁴ When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind? ²⁵ Then what did you go out there to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Men who wear fine clothes and live in luxury you find in palaces. ²⁶ Then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet! ²⁷ This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!' ²⁸ "I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he. ²⁹ And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John, ³⁰ but the Pharisees and experts in the Law thwarted God's purpose for themselves, by refusing to be baptized by him.