Matthew 11:11-13

The Voice

¹¹ This is the truth: no one who has ever been born to a woman is greater than John the Baptist.^[a] And yet the most insignificant person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ^12-13 All of the prophets of old, all of the law—that was all prophecy leading up to the coming of John. Now, that sort of prepares us for this very point, right here and now. When John the Baptist^[b] came, the kingdom of heaven began to break in upon us, and those in power are trying to clamp down on it—why do you think John is in jail?