3. and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
4. And יהושע answering, said to them, “Go, report to Yoḥanan what you hear and see:
5. “Blind receive sight and lame walk, lepers are cleansed and deaf hear, dead are raised up and poor are brought the Good News.
6. “And blessed is he who does not stumble in Me.”
7. And as these were going, יהושע began to say to the crowds concerning Yoḥanan, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
8. “But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look, those wearing soft garments are in the houses of sovereigns.
9. “But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
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.’