Luke 7:19-30

¹⁹So he summoned two of them, and sent them to the Master to ask — “Are you ‘the coming one,’ or are we to look for someone else?”

²⁰When these men found Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask — Are you ‘the coming one,’ or are we to look for somebody else?”

²¹At that very time Jesus had cured many people of diseases, afflictions, and wicked spirits, and had given many blind people their sight.

²²So his answer to the question was, “Go and report to John what you have witnessed and heard — the blind recover their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, the good news is told to the poor.

²³And blessed is the person who finds no hindrance in me.”

²⁴When John's messengers had left, Jesus, speaking to the crowds, began to say with reference to John,

²⁵“What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed waving in the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in rich clothing? Why, those who are accustomed to fine clothes and luxury live in royal palaces.

²⁶What then did you go to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

²⁷This is the man of whom scripture says — ‘I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’

²⁸There is, I tell you, no one born of a woman who is greater than John; and yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

²⁹(All the people, when they heard this, and even the tax-gatherers, having accepted John's baptism, acknowledged the justice of God.

³⁰But the Pharisees and the students of the Law, having rejected John's baptism, frustrated God's purpose in regard to them.)