When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

John’s baptism – was it from heaven or from people?”

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.”

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”