24. 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?
25. But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
26. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
27. This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
28. “For I tell you, amongst those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than Yochanan the Immerser, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”