While in Herod’s prison, John the Baptist sends some of his disciples to Jesus with the question: “Are you the one who is to come, or should we wait for someone else?” “Go and tell John what you see and hear,” Jesus tells them, and then he tells them a summary of what was happening through him.

John never had any doubts about himself. Things were very clear to him.

It was through him that God broke His silence of four hundred years.

His father, who was a priest, had gone mute in the presence of God. It was at the articulation of his name that brought back voice to the old man.

He had heard amazing stories from his father, his mother, his cousin Mary, and her husband Joseph.

He had seen with his own eyes the heavens open and the Spirit descend.

His ears had heard the voice of the Heavenly Father.

It was pretty clear to him that the words that came out of him were not of his own making.

He had noticed that the crowds came to hear him listened to his words as God's own words, without contradicting any of them.

But those who sought him out and became his disciples harbored great expectations about him. Even though he had clearly stated that he was only "the voice crying out in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord." That's what will happen when people become a fan base for someone. Even after he was in prison, his disciples still continued baptizing people in the Jordan. They did not seem to accept that he was just the morning star that should vanish after announcing and making the way for the Sun. It seems to me that this investigative expedition must have been a strategy that John adopted to free his disciples from himself and direct them to Him- who should increase.

The sign that Jesus told at the end of his message to John was that “the poor have good news preached to them.” In fact Jesus started his mission from the same phrase: “He has sent me to preach the good news to the poor” (Luke 4:18). The reading he did that day was from the 61st chapter of the prophet Isaiah. In addition to “the blind seeing and the deaf hearing,” Isaiah 35 also says that “the weak hands will be strengthened and the feeble knees will be made firm” as a sign of the One coming.

The basic mission and methods of his disciples- the Church, and us must be the same as that of the Christ.