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These were strenuous days in John‘s experience, and he prayed for the return of Jesus. Some of John‘s disciples organized scouting parties to go in search of Jesus, but John forbade, saying: ―Our times are in the hands of the God of heaven; he will direct his chosen Son." It was early on the morning of Sabbath, February 23 that the company of John, engaged in eating their morning meal, looked up toward the north and beheld Jesus coming to them. As he approached them, John stood upon a large rock and, lifting up his sonorous voice, said: "Behold the Son of God, the deliverer of the world! This is he of whom I have said, `After me there will come one who is preferred before me because he was before me.‟ For this cause came I out of the wilderness to preach repentance and to baptize with water, proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And now comes one who shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And I beheld the divine spirit descending upon this man, and I heard the voice of God declare, „This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. " Jesus bade them return to their food while he sat down to eat with John, his brothers James and Jude having returned to Capernaum. Early in the morning of the next day he took leave of John and his disciples, going back to Galilee. He gave them no word as to when they would again see him. To John‘s inquiries about his own preaching and mission Jesus only said, "My Father will guide you now and in the future as he has in the past." And these two great men separated that morning on the banks of the Jordan, never again to greet each other in the flesh.