What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more ¹  than a prophet.

Although ¹  Herod ²  wanted to kill John, ³  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds ¹  regarded him as a prophet.

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more ¹  than a prophet.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

Nevertheless I must ¹  go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible ²  that a prophet should be killed ³  outside Jerusalem.’ ⁴ 

and was returning home, sitting ¹  in his chariot, reading ²  the prophet Isaiah.

Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever ¹  receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ¹  ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ ² 

So Philip ran up ¹  to it ²  and heard the man ³  reading Isaiah the prophet. He ⁴  asked him, ⁵  “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey ¹  him in everything he tells you. ²