prophet, as a man of courage, as one of the epoch-making men of all time, introducing the new dispensation, as the greatest of men measured by God’s standard of purity, loyalty and courage. He was no time-server. The people and the publicans honored John, while the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected him as they did Jesus. John was too unlike other people (ascetic), while Jesus was too much like other people, “the friend of publicans and sinners.” The critics of these two preachers are reproduced