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-# Connecting Statement:
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-Jesus continues to talk to the crowds about John the Baptist.
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 # all the prophets and the law have been prophesying until John
 
-Here "prophets and the law" refer to the things that the prophets and Moses wrote in scripture. Alternate translation: "these are the things that the prophets and Moses have prophesied through the scriptures until the time of John the Baptist" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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+Here “prophets and the law” refer to the things that the prophets and Moses wrote in scripture. Alternate translation: “these are the things that the prophets and Moses have prophesied through the scriptures until the time of John the Baptist”