For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:

All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.

The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,