and they.

Matthew 11:9-15
What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. . . .

Matthew 21:23-25, 32
When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came to Him. "By what authority are You doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave You this authority?" . . .

Mark 9:12, 13
He replied, "Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected? . . .

Mark 11:30-32
The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!" . . .

Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

John 1:11
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

John 5:32-36
There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid. . . .

Acts 13:24-28
Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. . . .

but.

Matthew 11:2
Meanwhile, John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent two of his disciples

Matthew 14:3-10
Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, . . .

Mark 6:14-28
Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus' name had become well known, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him." . . .

Luke 3:19, 20
But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother's wife Herodias and all the evils he had done, . . .

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers--

Likewise.

Matthew 16:21
From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Luke 9:21-25
Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone. . . .

Acts 2:23
He was handed over by God's set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 3:14, 15
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. . . .

Acts 4:10
then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.