007:024 When John's messengers were gone, He proceeded to say to the multitude
concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at?
A reed waving in the wind?
007:025 But what did you go out to see? A man wearing luxurious clothes?
People who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are
found in palaces.
007:026 But what did you go out to see? A Prophet? Aye, I tell you, and far more than a Prophet.
007:027 John is the man about whom it is written, `See, I am sending
My messenger before thy face, and he shall make ready thy
way before thee.'
007:028 "I tell you that among all of women born there is not one greater
than John. Yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of God
is greater than he.
007:029 And all the people, including the tax-gatherers, when they
listened to him upheld the righteousness of God, by being
baptized with John's baptism.
007:030 But the Pharisees and expounders of the Law have frustrated God's
purpose as to their own lives, by refusing to be baptized.
007:031 "To what then shall I compare the men of the present generation,
and what do they resemble?
007:032 They are like children sitting in the public square and calling out to one another, `We have played the flute to you, and you have not danced: we have sung dirges, and you have not shown sorrow.'
007:033 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, `He has a demon!'