But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
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Gill's Exposition
And all the people that heard him,.... Either Christ saying these things in commendation of John, and gave their assent to them, and showed their approbation of them, having been baptized by him; or…
See this passage explained in Mat. 11:2-19. Luk 7:29 The people - The common people. That heard him - That heard “John.” The publicans - The tax-gatherers, the worst kind of people, who had, however,…
All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Mt. 11:2-19.
I. We have here the message John Baptist…
Cambridge Bible
A prophet? "All accounted John as a prophet," Luk 21:26.
more than a prophet Namely, an actual personal herald and forerunner; the Angel or Messenger of Malachi, Mal 3:1, and so the only Prophet who…
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