But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and far more than a prophet.
But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft garments are in kings' houses.
Though desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they counted him as a prophet.
"And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."