24. And after John’s messengers left, He began to speak about John to the crowds. “What did you go out to the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
25. No? So what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine garments? Look, those who wear finery and live in luxury are in the palaces of kings!
26. Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, even more than a prophet.
27. This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send My messenger before You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
28. I say to you, there is no one greater than John among those born of women; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”