I AM NOT MESSIAH
John 1: 19-20.
And this is the testimony of John when the Jews from Jerusalem sent some priests and Levites to him to ask him:
"Who are you?"
He confessed and did not lie, saying,
"I'm not the Messiah."
"HONEST RECOGNITION"
Should come from Jerusalem out the messengers of the Gospel preaching that Jesus is God.
Jerusalem As a center of worship, the first Light of the Gospels should have appeared from Jerusalem, but Jerusalem was the first to reject Christ.
They asked John;
Who are you .. ???
Why they ask .. ???
Because they did not accept Jesus.
They prefer John rather than Jesus.
John confessed and did not lie, saying:
"I am not the Messiah".
The legality and authority of a person in a task is important, but what happens to John is a little different;
When Jerusalem asked about John's identity as a way of Jerusalem's rejection of JESUS, because of their hatred of Jesus.
So John says with NO SUSPECT he said: "I AM NOT MESSIAH".
What a nation that does not know his Lord.
For them John is greater than JESUS.
Be grateful; John was God's anointed man, giving a strict Testimony that he was NOT the Messiah.
An honest and sincere confession, but this confession does not necessarily lead the scribes to believe in Jesus.
From the Answer:
"I am not the Messiah" proves that Jerusalem seems to regard John as the Messiah, even trying to appoint him as the Messiah, for Jerusalem has power for it, and consequently many people can believe this false news.
John is not big headed to use the plight in this narrowness to steal the glory of God, because it is supported by Jerusalem to make him a false Messiah.
John knew he was carrying; he only voiced the prophetic voice sent by God to prepare the way for the real MESSIAH
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