Truly I say to you, There has not arisen among those born of a woman any greater than John the Baptist. But the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is.
But as these were going, Jesus began to say to the crowds about John, What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed being shaken with the wind?
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him. And seeing, you did not care afterwards to believe him.
And John’s messengers going away, He began to speak to the crowds about John: What did you go out to the deserted place to see? A reed being shaken by the wind?
And now, behold, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness. And now, behold, today I am a son of eighty-five years;
And the sons of the Kenite, the fatherin- law of Moses, had gone up out of the city of palms with the sons of Judah to the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad. And they went and lived with the people.