10. “For this is he of whom it was written, ‘See, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.’
11. “Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than Yoḥanan the Immerser, yet the least one in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.
12. “And from the days of Yoḥanan the Immerser till now the reign of the heavens is violated, and the violent seize it.
13. “For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied till Yoḥanan.
14. “And if you wish to accept it, he is Ěliyahu who was about to come.
15. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
16. “And to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to their companions,
17. and saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we lamented to you, and you did not beat the breast.’
18. “For Yoḥanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’