9 1But what did you go out to see? aA prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one who is more than a prophet.10 This is the one about whom it 1is written,
‘aBehold, I send My messenger2ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way before You.’
11 Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is 1least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.