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rerun7378
Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:00 pm

Re: Was St. John the Baptist the "Second Messiah" 
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Actually I got my info from reading the NIV, a translation with a seemingly large input from Americans, though admittedly it says boys instead of children. 

From the ...

23And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

 24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

 25And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.

That's why I don't prefer the King's English.

I now find it hard to believe that John didn't know about Jesus' "status" 

All men are subject to doubt at some time in their life.  It is all of humanity's weakness.

No man knows God's timeline of events.  It is reasonable to doubt.  We must not be consumed by it, but it is natural.

John went to his death knowing Jesus is the Christ, the Lamb of God, just as he proclaimed Him to be.

That is typical of the bible.  It shows humans in all of their weakness and strength.  It is real.  It isn't showing humanity in any other light.