9. “But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
10. “For this is he of whom it was written, ‘See, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.’
11. “Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than Yoḥanan the Immerser, yet the least one in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.
12. “And from the days of Yoḥanan the Immerser till now the reign of the heavens is violated, and the violent seize it.
13. “For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied till Yoḥanan.