7:24 When ¹  John’s messengers had gone, Jesus ²  began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness ³  to see? A reed shaken by the wind? ⁴  7:27 This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, ⁵  who will prepare your way before you.’ ⁶ 

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.