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28 “Yes, I tell you,[a] among those born of women there is no prophet[b] greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

29 When all the people (including the tax collectors) heard this, they declared that God was just, since they were baptized with the baptism of John. 30 But the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected God’s purpose for themselves by not being baptized by him.

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  1. Luke 7:28 Some witnesses to the text read I tell you the truth.
  2. Luke 7:28 Some witnesses to the text read no one.

28 I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God(A) is greater than he.”

29 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John.(B) 30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law(C) rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

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