For those with bible, take it and for those who don't have one, use this for all the references bellow
http://www.biblegateway.com. Here we go:
"The Jews were eargerly waiting for the coming of "the prophet" prophesied by Moses in the book of Deuteronomy(18:18-19) up to the time of Jesus. They sent delegations to inquire about John the Baptist, whose confession is recorded in the Gospel of John(1:20-21)
He confessed, he did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the christ" They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No
Christians regard John the baptist object of confession and prophecy to be Jesus christ.
Jesus is said to have declared that John the Baptist was the "reincarnation" of prophet Elijah according to Mathew(11:13-14; 17:11-12) and Luke (1:7). However, John the Baptist has expressly revoked Jesus on this regard when he told the jewish delegation in John(1:20-21): "he was not Elijah, nor christ, nor the prophet."
God said in Malachi(3:1), that prohpet Elijah will be sent only just before the coming of the great and terrible day (day of judgement), which statement, readers Jesus' words in the above cited gospels to be interpolations.
We read in the first Gospel that, John the Baptist did not know the mission of Jesus acording to Mathew(11:3). John said to Jesus "Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?" In the Fourth gospel John do not even know Jesus personally until he was baptized according to john(1:31): "I myself did not know him (jesus)." Whereas, in the third Gospel it was reported that both their mothers were related according to Luke(1:36 an 1:39-45) and personally known each other.
It was obviouse that Jesus knew his cousin very well according to matthew(11:11) when he said: "Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the baptist."
Did jesus really made such declarations? was John the Baptist greater than Abraham, Moses, David and jesus himself? Another interpolation.
Now, who was really this prophet prophesied by Moses and John the Baptist? I have to present to you the following arguements:
1. In the book of Luke(3:16) and in Mark(1:7), John the Baptist, said: "And he preached, saying: After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worhty to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with holy spirt and with fire."
The words "After me comes he who is mightier than I" present a very decisive factor that excludes completely Jesus from being the foretold prophet because Jesus and John were contemporaries who were born in one and the same year. And according to the history of true religion, it takes five to six centuries before another prophet comes up. The statement meant that prophet would come after John the Baptist and he will baptize people with fire, but Jesus came when John the Baptist still lives and didn't baptize anybody at all with fire.
It was not jesus who could be intended by John the baptist because if it were, then he would have followed him as his disciples and subordinate. But instead, John continued preaching, baptizing, receiving disciples, scolding the jewish hierarchy, and foretelling the coming of another prophet who was "mightier" (mark 1:7) than himself without taking the least notice of the presence of jesus.
2. In the book of Mathew(11:3), john was ignorant about the gift of prophecy in jesus until he heard it while he was in prison. John sent his disciples to ask him "are you he (the prophet) who is to come, or should we look for another?" This statment invalidated and made meaningles John's exclamation towards Jesus as reported in the book of John(1:9): seing Jesus coming towards him, he exclaimed: "look the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" If john said this, then he already knew jesus was the one and why he sent his disciples to ask again?"
Perhaps the above analysis is part of the Errors reported in September 1951 by Jehovah witness that there are 50,000 errors in the modern bible.
why are we getting ourselves deceived? These scholars weren't even smart enough, look at all the interpolations. why are they hiding the truth from us? why?
It still leaves us with a very big question mark who that prophet prophecied by Moses and john the baptist was because Jesus was disqualified? we will see again...