Someone wants to know the following: We read in Luke 9: 7-9 that Herod was confused regarding YaHWeshua’s identity, specifically because of His works. From this we can derive that John also performed similar miracles which were never recorded. Our question therefore is: Seeing that the announcement of the gospel of the kingdom is directly linked to the working of miracles, the miracles which we accept that were done by John, were never recorded, for a reason.

Answer:   YaHWeshua Himself once referred to the prophet John as the prophet Elijah and it is general knowledge that Elijah possessed the gift of miracles. For instance, soldiers that wanted to take him to Agab as prisoner, fell dead upon his word. The miracle of the widow’s jar. The awakening of the deceased son. The water-drenched sacrifice-wood that ignited spontaneously upon his word. The drought which he had pronounced before this and then the cloudburst that he had pronounced over the king’s head, as well as the execution of hundreds of Baal priests on his own, etc. …

In the New Testament where the already elderly Elizabeth was pregnant with this same prophet-archangel-spirit, this unborn baby jumped up in the mother womb out of pure joy and happiness when the virgin Maria, also pregnant with YaHWeshua, arrived at her home. This in itself is already a miracle. But John’s mission this time was as forerunner, yes his goal was exclusively to bring the good tidings to the nation, to teach them and prepare them on the coming of the Messiah, yes the Savior of Israel, the Son of Man.

Therefore it was not necessary for him to use miracles to focus the attention on himself as supernatural human, because the lamp eternally cannot and may not shine brighter than the Sun. For this reason, John has pointed YaHWeshua out to the crowd, as the Master, with the following words. Look, I am not even worthy of tying His shoelaces.