As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare your way;

And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and among his relatives and at his home."

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

Yet can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because all the people thought John was really a prophet.

And some started to spit at him and to blindfold him and strike him, and say to him, "Now show that you are a prophet!" And the attendants slapped him as they took charge of him.