Matthew 11:9

Good News Translation

Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet.

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What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that live in palaces!

Herod wanted to kill him, but he was afraid of the Jewish people, because they considered John to be a prophet.

“You, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High God. You will go ahead of the Lord to prepare his road for him,

But if we say, ‘From human beings,’ this whole crowd here will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”