26But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
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And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. …
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-35)All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Matt. 11:2-19. I. We have here the message John Baptist sent to Christ, and the return he made to it. Observe, 1. The great thing we are to enquire concerning Christ is whether he be he that should come to redeem and save sinners, or whether we are to l…
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