13 The men found Jesus in his home, and said, Behold the harbinger sent us to ask, Are you the Christ? or is he yet to come?
14 But Jesus answered not; he simply bade the men to tarry certain days that they might see and hear.
15 They saw him heal the sick, and cause the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the blind to see;
16 They saw him cast the evil spirits out of those obsessed; they saw him raise the dead.
17 They heard him preach the gospel to the poor.
18 Then Jesus said to them, Go on your way; return to John and tell him all that you have seen and heard; then he will know. They went their way.
19 The multitudes were there, and Jesus said to them, Once you were crowding Jordan’s fords; you filled the wilderness.
20 What did you go to see? The trees of Juda, and the flowers of Heth? Or did you go to see a man in kingly garb? Or did you go to see a prophet and a seer?
21 I tell you, men, you know not whom you saw. A prophet? Yea, and more; a messenger whom God had sent to pave the way for what you see and hear this day.
22 Among the men of earth a greater man has never lived than John.