“Because also they believed, they justified God, for He appeared just to them in all that He did.”
Eusebius of Caesarea, 4th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
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27This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
28For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
— Luke 7:29 —
30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?