144:8.3 Jesus paused to say to John's friends: " Go back and tell John that he is not forgotten. Tell him what you have seen and heard, that the poor have good tidings preached to them. " And when Jesus had spoken further to the messengers of John, he turned again to the multitude and said: " Do not think that John doubts the gospel of the kingdom. He makes inquiry only to assure his disciples who are also my disciples. John is no weakling. Let me ask you who heard John preach before Herod put him in prison: What did you behold in John—a reed shaken with the wind? A man of changeable moods and clothed in soft raiment? As a rule they who are gorgeously appareled and who live delicately are in kings' courts and in the mansions of the rich. But what did you see when you beheld John? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. Of John it was written: `Behold, I send my messenger before your face; he shall prepare the way before you.' | 144:8.3 Jesus paused to say to John's friends: " Go back and tell John that he is not forgotten. Tell him what you have seen and heard, that the poor have good tidings preached to them. " And when Jesus had spoken further to the messengers of John, he turned again to the multitude and said: " Do not think that John doubts the gospel of the kingdom. He makes inquiry only to assure his disciples who are also my disciples. John is no weakling. Let me ask you who heard John preach before Herod put him in prison: What did you behold in John—a reed shaken with the wind? A man of changeable moods and clothed in soft raiment? As a rule they who are gorgeously appareled and who live delicately are in kings' courts and in the mansions of the rich. But what did you see when you beheld John? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. Of John it was written: `Behold, I send my messenger before your face; he shall prepare the way before you.' |