For I say unto you----here is not a greater prophet The word "prophet" is left out in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, as in ( Matthew 11:11 ) . (See Gill on Matthew 11:11).
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What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
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This is the one about whom it is written, "See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'
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I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
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(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.
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But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves.)
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