And just as they had compelled gentiles to be baptized, and to submit to other arrangements when they wished to partake of Jewish privileges, so John compelled them to be baptized.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Compared with the great Apostle of the gentiles he was neither wise nor learned; he was but one of the weak things of earth chosen to confound the mighty.
"The Making of an Apostle"
R. J. Campbell
He was poor, and what he could spare by rigid economies went into the few acres of sand that were to be the Light he had to offer to lighten the gentiles.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim