Matthew 11:6-11

The Voice

Jesus: What did you go into the desert to see? Did you expect to see a reed blowing around in the wind? ⁸ No? Were you expecting to see a man dressed in the finest silks? No, of course not—you find silk in the sitting rooms of palaces and mansions, not in the middle of the wilderness. ⁹ So what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes. Yes, a prophet and more than a prophet. ¹⁰ When you saw John, you saw the one whom the prophet Malachi envisioned when he said,

¹¹ This is the truth: no one who has ever been born to a woman is greater than John the Baptist.^[b] And yet the most insignificant person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.