6 Happy are those who don’t stumble and fall because of me."
7 When John’s disciples had gone, Jesus spoke to the crowds about John: “What did you go out to the wilderness to see? A stalk blowing in the wind?
8 What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in refined clothes? Look, those who wear refined clothes are in royal palaces.
9 What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
10 He is the one of whom it is written: Look, I’m sending my messenger before you, who will prepare your way before you.
11 “I assure you that no one who has ever been born is greater than John the Baptist. Yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven is violently attacked as violent people seize it.