10 This is the one about whom it is written:

See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;
he will prepare your way before you.[a](A)

11 “Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared,[b] but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12 From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence,[c] and the violent have been seizing it by force.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:10 Mal 3:1
  2. 11:11 Lit arisen
  3. 11:12 Or has been forcefully advancing

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