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Luke 7:27-29
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27 It is this man about whom it is written:

‘Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you.’[a]

28 I tell you, there is no one greater among those born of women than John, but the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. 29 (And all the people, when they[b] heard this[c]—even the tax collectors—affirmed the righteousness of God, because they[d] had been baptized with the baptism of John,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 7:27 A quotation from Mal 3:1; cf. Mark 1:2; Matt 11:10
  2. Luke 7:29 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Luke 7:29 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Luke 7:29 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had been baptized”) which is understood as causal
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