11. Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.
13. For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
14. And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come.
15. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
16. "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,