Will you please help me understand these two confusing statements?<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n\t
This is covered in the study\u00a0The Gospel Accounts: A Chronological Harmony<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in the lesson “The Galilean Tour<\/a>“:<\/p>\n Eventually, news of Jesus\u2019 raising of the widow\u2019s son reached the ears of John, who was in prison. John sent his disciples to Jesus to ask, \u201cAre you the Coming One, or do we look for another?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n It seems to be a strange question coming from the man who prepared the way for Christ and declared him to be the Messiah at his baptism. Yet, we must remember that John was a man, like all the other prophets before him. Other prophets had their moments of doubt. Moses had to be convinced to go and free the Israelites (Exodus 4:1-17). Gideon asked for two miracles before he led God\u2019s people to war (Judges 6:36-40). Elijah gave up after Jezebel threatened his life (I Kings 19:1-10). Jeremiah cursed the day he was born (Jeremiah 20:14-18). Remember that John has been in prison for quite a while now. Perhaps he thought, as did so many Jews, that Jesus would lead Israel in triumph against the Romans. Yet in all this time, Jesus hasn\u2019t declared himself, nor has there been any apparent move to re-establish the kingdom of Israel. And for John, there has been no rescue. Is it a wonder that John began to doubt himself?<\/p>\n Jesus didn\u2019t answer John\u2019s disciples directly. Instead during that very hour that they asked, he performed numerous miracles before the disciples of John. Afterward, he told them to return to John and tell them what they witnessed. His reply back to John echoes the words of Isaiah 35:5-6 and Isaiah 61:1, but the hidden message is found in the verse before. \u201cSay to those who are fearful-hearted, “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you”<\/em>\u201d (Isaiah 35:4). Jesus was telling John to take courage. Jesus warns John not to fall away because Jesus was not meeting John\u2019s personal expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Will you please help me understand these two confusing statements? In John 1:29-31 we read that John pointing out to Jesus tells his disciples that He (Jesus) was the promised Messiah `The Lamb of God`. But in Luke 7 – 19:20 we read that John while in prison sends his disciples to ask Jesus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[606,959,396,690],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-gospels","tag-john","tag-john-the-baptist","tag-luke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20757,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-did-john-doubt\/","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":0},"title":"Why did John doubt?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: In Matthew 3:13-17, John the Baptist meets Jesus and is resistant to baptizing him because he \"seemed\" to know that he was the Messiah and he thought that Jesus should baptize him instead. \u00a0Did John see the clouds open up and hear God's voice?\u00a0 Later, in Matthew 11:2-6, when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14284,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-was-johns-baptism-different-from-jesus-baptism\/","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":1},"title":"How was John’s baptism different from Jesus’ baptism?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I have some questions about John's baptism. 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