What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

and was returning home, sitting in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.