The Gospel of John. Ch 1 Part 2. Behold the Lamb of GOD Who takes away the sin of the world!

Truth In Scripture Pastor Rick Kabrick Thursday, March 13, 2025 The Gospel of John. Ch 1 Part 2. Behold the Lamb of GOD Who takes away the sin of the world!
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10-13, HE was in the world, and though the world was made through HIM, the world did not recognize HIM. HE came to that which was HIS own, but HIS own did not receive HIM.Yet to all who did receive HIM, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of GOD children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of GOD.
14 The Word became flesh and made HIS dwelling among us. We have seen HIS glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John the Baptist was very well known and popular in many areas. So it would have been quite natural that the Jewish leaders would send some officials to check him out. The use of the expression ‘the Jews ee you die os is used frequently in the Gospel of John, and it often is used to identify those who oppose Yeshua. However, John does use the term in other ways as well. Not all Jewish leaders, leaders, however, are presented negatively: Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea for example are in a positive light.
These Jewish officials would naturally be interested in questions of ritual purification and therefore in the immersion ritual or baptism John was doing. There was a Jewish ritual washing that was done, but who was this baptizer doing it and why.
John the Baptist himself was a Levite, and the son of a priest and it is hard to think these facts would not have been known by these officials. John the Baptist’s father was Zechariah, and he was a Jewish priest. Zechariah was a priest in the temple of Jerusalem and a member of the order of Abijah.
21 They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
21 They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
MAR 1:6, John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.So they answered him, “A hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
The officials wondered, if John the Baptist was not the Messiah, and he said he was not, then perhaps he was this promised Prophet. There had not been a Prophet since Malichai some 400 years before. So in a sense John the Baptist was a prophet but not that prophet they were referring to.
LUK 3:4-6, As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight paths for HIM. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all people will see GOD’s salvation.