In spite of encounter of John and Jesus at the Jordan, Matthew and Luke both share the story from the Sayings Source of John the Baptist sending disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?”[1] Jesus answers by telling those disciples to tell John what he has been doing: “The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me.”[2]
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