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The role of John the Baptist God & Jesus had great hopes that John the Baptist would prepare the people to listen, respect and follow Jesus. This was what John should have devoted his whole life to do. Not get himself put into prison where he was no help to Jesus at all. Indeed prison does not appear to have helped his spiritual life as he ended up doubting who Jesus was as we see in Matthew 11:2-3 Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you who is to come or shall we look for another?” Reading Matt 11;4-6 is Jesus' reply. It strikes one as being very disappointed of John, and ends “And blessed is he who takes no offence at me.” John was meant to be Jesus' greatest disciple who would testify to the Jewish religious leaders that Jesus was the Messiah. But in even that John fails when he denies being Elijah, John 1:21