“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
beginning from the baptism of John until the day he was taken up from us #— #from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.
The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms , to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.
“As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these forty-five years as he promised, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, eighty-five years old.