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28 I tell you, no one has ever been born who is[a] greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

29 By having been baptized with John’s baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice.[b] 30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law rejected God’s plan for themselves[c] by refusing to be baptized by John.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 7:28 Lit. one among those born of women have been
  2. Luke 7:29 Or judgment
  3. Luke 7:30 Or God’s decision in their case
  4. Luke 7:30 Lit. him

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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