as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: "Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way;"

And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and among his own kindred, and in his own house.

And others said, It is a prophet, as one of the prophets.

For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

But shall we say, From men? They feared the people; for all regarded John as truly a prophet.