10
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.'
11
Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12
From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.
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