I found this very interesting this morning as I started the Gospel of John.
John the Baptist was asked by the Pharisees if He was that Prophet, or The Messiah.
Joh 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Joh 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
Joh 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Notice he says no I am not, after they sent people to question him.
Yet the very next day at the river Jordan, the Messiah shows up and what is said?
Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Joh 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Joh 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
Joh 1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
Joh 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
John the Baptist tells the multitudes and the messengers and all who would listen that this man, Jesus is the Lamb of God. This man Jesus is the One he spoke of just the day before.
John the Baptist, the Testifier, the Witness does his job and tells everyone who the Messiah is.
When Jesus comes, after that ringing endorsement from John whom they approached and asked him who he was, they never asked Christ if He was that Prophet, or the Messiah, or Esaias.
They were told who He was, and they did not listen, they did not look, they did not want to know. Why? Because He came as a man, in our image, in our way. Not in what they considered to be the way a God would come.
Jesus was announced to the World, and the World?
The world did not care.
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