The child who is born to us is more than a prophet; for it is he of whom the Savior said: Among those born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist.
(Mt 11:9, 10, 11)

(NIV translation)
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
because he has come and has redeemed
his people. He has raised up a horn of
salvation for us in the house of his servant
David (as he said through his holy
prophets of long ago), salvation from our
enemies and from the hand of all who
hate us—to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant, the
oath he swore to our father Abraham: to
rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
and to enable us to serve him without
fear in holiness and righteousness before
him all our days. And you, my child,
will be called a prophet of the Most
High; for you will go on before the Lord
to prepare the way for him, to give his
people the knowledge of salvation through
the forgiveness of their sins, because of the
tender mercy of our God, by which the
rising sun will come to us from heaven to
shine on those living in darkness and in
the shadow of death, to guide our feet
in the path of peace.” Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now
and ever shall be, and forever and ever.
Amen (Lk. 1:68–79)