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Matthew - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- And it came to pass, when Jesus ended directing his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
- And John having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, having sent two of his disciples,
- said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'
- And Jesus answering said to them, `Having gone, declare to John the things that ye hear and see,
- blind receive sight, and lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, and poor have good news proclaimed,
- and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'
- And as they are going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, `What went ye out to the wilderness to view? -- a reed shaken by the wind?
- `But what went ye out to see? -- a man clothed in soft garments? lo, those wearing the soft things are in the kings' houses.
- `But what went ye out to see? -- a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet,
- for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
- Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.
- `And, from the days of John the Baptist till now, the reign of the heavens doth suffer violence, and violent men do take it by force,
- for all the prophets and the law till John did prophesy,
- and if ye are willing to receive `it', he is Elijah who was about to come;
- he who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.
- `And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,
- and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.
- `For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon;
- the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'
- Then began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform.
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