But what went ye foorth to see? A prophete? Yea, I say to you, and more then a prophete.
But and yf we say of men, all the people wyll stone vs: For they be perswaded that Iohn is a prophete.
And thou childe shalt be called the prophete of the hyghest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lorde, to prepare his wayes.
He was a burnyng & a shynyng lyght, and ye would for a season haue reioyced in his lyght.
The lawe & the prophetes [raigned] vntyll Iohn, and sence that tyme, the kyngdome of God is preached, & euery man stryueth to go in.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? Beholde, they which are gorgeously appareled, & lyue delicately, are in kynges courtes.
This is he, of whom it is written: Beholde, I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.