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There was an individual who initially believed that Jesus was the messiah but then started to question whether this was, in fact, correct. We can all learn from Jesus' example. | There was an individual who initially believed that Jesus was the messiah but then started to question whether this was, in fact, correct. We can all learn from Jesus' example. | ||
The individual's name was John the Baptist, a relative of Jesus. John was the one who baptized Jesus and said this of Jesus: | The individual's name was John the Baptist, a relative of Jesus. John was the one who baptized Jesus and said this of Jesus in Luke 3:16–17: | ||
:''I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Lk 3:16–17.</ref> | :''I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Lk 3:16–17.</ref> | ||
But after John was thrown into prison by Herod, he started to have questions: | But after John was thrown into prison by Herod, he started to have questions as we read in Luke 7:18–28: | ||
:''And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, '''“Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”''' And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’ ” In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight. And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” | :''And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, '''“Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”''' And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’ ” In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight. And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” | ||