23 Behold I say, This man whom Herod bound in chains and cast into a prison cell, is God’s Elijah come again to earth.
24 Elijah, who did not pass the gates of death, whose body of this flesh was changed, and he awoke in Paradise.
25 When John came forth and preached the gospel of repentance for the cleansing of the soul, the common folks believed and were baptized.
26 The lawyers and the Pharisees accepted not the teachings of this man; were not baptized.
27 Behold, neglected opportunities will never come again.
28 Behold, the people are unstable as the waters of the sea; they seek to be excused from righteousness.
29 John came and ate no bread, and drank no wine. He lived the simplest life apart from men, and people said, He is obsessed.
30 Another comes who eats and drinks and lives in homes like other men, and people say, He is a glutton, an inebriate, a friend of publicans and those who sin.
31 Woe unto you, you cities of the vale of Galilee, where all the mighty works of God are done! Woe to Chorazan and Bethsaida!
32 If half the mighty works that have been done in you were done in Tyre and in Sidon they would have long ago repented of their sins, and sought the way of right.