“And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?”
After John's messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: what did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind? — the three rhetorical questions about John are Jesus' public commendation of the forerunner. What did you go out to see: the question addresses the crowd's own expectations when they went out to John. A reed swayed by the wind: someone who adapts to every pressure and changes direction with every breeze — not John.
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