28. I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.”
29. (Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
30. However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
31. “To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?