Luke 7:24-30
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When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out e into the wilderness to see? f A reed shaken by the wind?
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What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings' courts.
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What then did you go out to see? g A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
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This is he of whom it is written,
h "'Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you.'
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I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
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( i When all the people heard this, and j the tax collectors too, they declared God just, j having been baptized with k the baptism of John,
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l but the Pharisees and m the lawyers n rejected o the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
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Luke 1:80
And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
Luke 3:2
During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
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Ephesians 4:14
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
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Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways.
Luke 20:6
But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.
Matthew 14:5
And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.
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Mark 1:2
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
Luke 1:17
And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways.
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Malachi 3:1
Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
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Luke 20:6
But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.
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Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
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Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
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Acts 18:25
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Acts 19:3
And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism.
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Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?" And they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
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Luke 10:25
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 11:45 - 46
One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.
Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.
Luke 14:3
And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?
Matthew 22:35
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
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Mark 7:9
And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
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Acts 2:23
This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption.
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