When Yochanan's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about Yochanan, *What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.