Matthew 11:8-13 What did you expect to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, people who wear fancy clothes live in kings’ palaces.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ What did you expect to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, people who wear fancy clothes live in kings’ palaces. ⁹ Why did you go out [to the desert]? To see a prophet? Yes, I should say [he was], and much more than a prophet. ¹⁰ He is the one about whom it was written [Mal. 3:1], ‘Look, I [will] send my messenger on ahead of you. He will prepare the pathway in front of you.’ ¹¹ It is true when I tell you, among [all] those born of women, no one greater than John the Immerser has come along. Yet the least significant person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹² And from the days of John the Immerser the kingdom of heaven is experiencing turmoil, for violent men are [trying to] take control of it [by bringing it into existence] forcibly [i.e., before its appointed time. See Acts 1:6-7]. ¹³ For all of the prophets and the law of Moses prophesied [of this kingdom] up until the time of John.