bullethead
Of the hard cast variety
John?Which one what??? It’s not even relevant. It was a Prophet (consider John????) that was raised up from out of that people.
But in a sense I guess it can be relevant if using the Torah “rules” as why Jesus can’t be the Messiah.
What’s relevant is the age old argument of new rules and new religion to get away from the Torah to make Jesus the Messiah after being told by the Torah a Prophet would come and give Gods commandments.
In Jewish religion prophecy can only happen when Israel is ruled by god, which only happens when the Jews are in control of the country. The Romans were in control of Israel at that time. The whole NT was under Roman rule.
Lots of people have prophetic visions , John had prophetic visions, but he was not a prophet.
They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” ~ John 1:21
Jesus did not meet the criteria so John coming before him was not the prophet the OT was talking about.
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