And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Comment: I am a committed believer in the Bible as the word of God and in Jesus as the Son of God. I hear the cries of those trying to denounce the trustworthiness of the Bible and the authorship and writers of the gospels. So confidently I write that John the Baptist having been promised in the Old Testament, his birth and character having been revealed by an angelic voice to Elizabeth and Zachariah as recorded in Luke’s gospel and his Ministry dealt with in several of the gospels was the promised forerunner of the Messiah long promised to the Jews. He was so committed to his mission that in his stance for truth he lost his head. Here he was faced with the big question, the Hope of the Jews ‘Are you the Promised One, the Messiah?’ ‘A thousand times No!’ he shouts, but I know Who He is and I’ll introduce you to Him soon!
Prayer: I would meet Him, Father!
As I read it! 