What went ye out for to see? A prophet? — The words again throw the hearers back upon the impressions made on them when they first saw and heard the Baptist. They then went out to see a prophet, and they were not, disappointed. Nothing that they had seen or heard since was to lead them to think less worthily of him now. He was indeed a prophet, taught by the Spirit of Jehovah, predicting the glory of the kingdom; but he was also something more than this — a worker in the fulfilment of what he thus proclaimed.
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Matthew 11:9
9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.