Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor."
While John's disciples were packing up to go back to the prison with news for him, I'm certain they were listening very closely to what Jesus had to say concerning him. Jesus asks the crowd three times: What did you go out in the desert to see? Three times. Then he answers himself and calls John "The Elijah who was to come". I can imagine the stories that were relived by each of these men as they made the hike back to report what they had heard and seen to their friend.
I like to imagine the joy that must have ignited in John when they whispered stories of healing and snatches of parables through prison bars to him. I can imagine the excitement that came with hearing the testimonies of each individual, the gentle turning of souls to God and a spiritual feast for a weary and imprisoned prophet.
"I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." ~Jesus
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