Luke 7:20-35 KJV
20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.

I always loved missionary stories of the way the Gospel was spread. Irish carry their own legendary figure who carried the Gospel to Ireland and minister in a land of lepercauns and fairies. Okay as legend goes Ireland had it own art of deception religion. The irish legend has shaped a world of fantasy, yet it was once part of ancient spiritual world that honor not God. When St Patrick came to Ireland he did not embrace the local faith but took patriotic road and display his faith with shammocks being rare to find representing the four Gospels and symbol use for the trinity was the 3 leaf clover to speak to a people different from his British faith. The legends of faeries and lepercauns still exist but more woven in stories of gold being at the end of rainbow as being culture and stories hand down by a people to their children that dream and play. Not taken serious as being real. Christ reality spoke to a people and change their life for eternity to all that would believed.

John the Baptist bore witness of who God said Jesus was, yet he sent his disciples to investigate and question Jesus who he was. John would die before Christ was crucified and were raised back to life. John was still under the Old covenant and yet he had a part in the New Covenant of bearing witmess who God said Jesus was.

John inquiry may have been to help his disciples in what was to become of him. They would bear witness of who Jesus is because their own testimony of those things they witnessed of what Jesus did for the people. He healed the sick and cast out demons. They themselves would bear witness to John the Baptist tgat they had seen the Messiah.

John the Baptist said Jesus baptism would come with fire and it did not come until the upper room. John the Baptist baptism was of repentance. Jesus baptism was not of repentance but of anointing and testimony of God to the those that would bear witness.

Pharisees were men who were not taught or baptized by Jesus.Though they witness miracles and teaching that could not testify anything good about Jesus, because they could not receive his truth because of both John the Baptist and Jesus was yet to be considered a baptism of God. Disciples of Jesus did dined with all types of people and John disciples fasted and prayed with John the Baptist.

The last statement the religious leaders had sat in the market place. John the Baptist and Jesus bore testimony of God too. Three groups of faith in God and Christ being Messiah only in two group taught and the other bearing witness though the Priesthood could not follow what their eyes were not open to understanding. Despite they witnessed much.

"Wisdom is justified by her children". The wisdom until Christ rose from the grave no one could received his testimony fully even with seeing and witnessing as they to seen God use their hands to heal people. Even Peter a lead disciple would deny Christ. All to the will of God. When Christ is resurrected the new covenant of faith could happen. Transformation of change coming with the resurrection unite these people as one. When one spread the Gospel one is spreading the Jewish faith in God, the testimony of repentance John the Baptist preached, carried and bore testimony of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It the testimony St Patrick carried to Ireland that been carried around the world. Let you all think on this a while. Without the Old Covenant their no New Covenant of fairh. Without repentance you have no covenant at all with God.

Dear Heavenly Father tranaform your people into believers of faith and repentance from sin. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Acts 19:1-6 KJV
1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.