Look also at John the Baptist. He also had to leave his beloved home and live in the wilderness. He walked a path that abandoned his loving family, that denied the secular relationships, and that united with God's Will and became one with God. God drove him out so that his standard could be recognized as being even better than that of Adam and Eve and he as being more loyal than that of the archangel who distrusted God. (53-44)

Before looking at Jesus, let us look at John the Baptist. John the Baptist was led to the wilderness. In other words, he had to leave his home, be separated from his past, and go out to the wilderness, surviving only on locusts and wild honey. He shed tears for the coming Messiah, for God, and for his nation and people. When he prayed, he shed tears of particular significance. He shed tears for the nation, for the Messiah whom the Israelites longed for and for God's will. In this sense he was the greatest prophet among all prophets.

In other words, all the earlier prophets could not receive the Messiah, but John the Baptist was there to straighten the road that the Messiah would walk. All the others could not pray for this coming Messiah, but John the Baptist could pray for him and would be able to work for him. This was the difference. This was why he was the greatest of all prophets.

However, although John prayed for the Messiah to be the ruler of his nation, Jesus came as the ruler of the whole world. There was some difference between John's view point and God's heart. This was the beginning point from which he could not be united with Jesus.

John's view of the Messiah was for his own nation. Therefore, he dreamed that the Messiah would come to save the Israel people. Therefore, he expected that Jesus would keep the Mosaic Law, which was the rule of Israelite people; but he saw that Jesus instead of keeping the Law, violated it.

Coming to save the whole world, Jesus' perspective was much wider and was different from John's. In Jesus' perspective there was not just one particular nation. This made them go their own separate ways. Therefore, John the Baptist ended up standing in the position of the Israelites who opposed Jesus, and he rushed into his own death.

If he had stood on the side of Jesus and became one with him, then he would have become the primary disciple, and thus the disciples of John would have become Jesus' disciples. Had that happened, the followers of John the Baptist and all people who believed John to be the greatest among all the prophets would have followed Jesus. (52-54)