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John Baptist hearing in prison the fame of Christ, sends two of his Disciples to him with this Question, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? verl. 3. Not (as Tertullian thinks) that John Baptist knew not that Jesus Christ was the True Messiah; for he was confirmed in this, both by the Spirit of God, and by a sign from Heaven, John 1. 33. But John Baptist hereby endeavoured to correct the ignorance of his own Disciples, who had a greater respect for him than for Christ.

In the fourth Verse Christ answers their question, Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see; the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the Lepers are cleansed, &c. Jesus Christ demonstrates himself to be the true Messiah, by his Miracles, which were real and ocular proofs of his Divinity. John's Disciples being departed, Christ falls into an high elogium and commendation of John Baptist: Vers. 7. What went ye out into the Wilderness to see; a reed shaken with the wind? As if Christ had said, John Baptist was no unconstant man, fluctuating in his mind, and being shaken as a Reed from one opinion to another; ^*he was no Reuben, unstable as water, but was fixed and resolute in Religion, and a Prison could make no alteration in him.

In the fourth Verse Christ answers their question, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see; the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the Lepers are cleansed, &c. Jesus Christ demonstrates himself to be the true Messiah, by his Miracles, which were real and ocular proofs of his Divinity. John's Disciples being departed, Christ falls into an high elogium and commendation of John Baptist: Vers. 7. What went ye out into the Wilderness to see; a reed shaken with the wind? As if Christ had said, John Baptist was no unconstant man, fluctuating in his mind, and being shak•n as a Reed from one opinion to another; ^*