25. If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Now those who are splendidly clothed and live luxuriously are in royal palaces.
26. What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet.
27. This is he of whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending My messenger before Your face,who shall prepare Your way before You.’
28. I say to you, among those who are born of women there is no greater prophet than John the Baptist. Yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
29. All the people who heard Him, including the tax collectors, justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.