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“For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” Luke 7:28 . “When the Lord Jesus praised His angel St. John the Baptist, He showed the power of the Gospel preaching. Even though St. John has reached such a marvelous status, for he was called ‘the greatest of all born of women’, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.’ St. John represented the age of the old law, but the Gospel message offered the ‘filiation to God’ by means of which the believer is blessed with what is greater than what the men of the old Testament have ever obtained.” #StJohntheBaptist #greatestprophet #NewCopticYear #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; …