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Reading: Matthew 11:2-11
(Amplified)
Now
when John in prison heard about the activities of Christ, he sent a message by
his disciples and asked Him, "Are You the One Who was to come, or should we
keep on expecting a different one?" And Jesus replied to them, "Go and report
to John what you hear and see: The blind receive their sight and the lame walk,
lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and
the poor have the Gospel preached to them. And blessed, happy, fortunate, and
to be envied is the one who takes no offense at Me and finds no cause for
stumbling in or through Me and is not hindered from seeing the Truth." Then as
these men went their way, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What
did you go out in the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? What did you go
out to see then? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those who wear soft
clothing are in the houses of kings. But what did you go out to see? A prophet?
Yes, I tell you, and one out of the common, more eminent, more remarkable, and
superior to a prophet. This is the one of whom it is written, Behold, I send My
messenger ahead of You, who shall make ready Your way before You. Truly I tell
you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the
Baptizer; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than
he." |
