²⁶ What then did you go out to see? ^(A)A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

⁶ But if we say, ‘From man’, all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was ^(A)a prophet.”

⁹ What then did you go out to see? ^(A)A prophet?^[a] Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

⁵ And though he wanted to put him to death, ^(A)he feared the people, because they held him to be ^(B)a prophet.