Jaareshiah, thanks for answering me and letting me know how you see John' situation. When I read Jesus' response, it looks like he is quite upset that John is asking such a question after all the preparation and revelation he had received.
Jesus was indignant at such a question and answered quite judgmentally, "'... blessed is he who takes no offense at me'" (Mt 11:6),
Jesus also said, "'... among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he'" (Mt 11:11). If one were the greatest born of women, surely he should be equally great in the Kingdom of Heaven. Then how could John the Baptist, who was born as the greatest in history, be less than the least in heaven?
That is a pretty hard judgement coming form Jesus don't you think ?
Beside the time when John baptizes Jesus, I could not find any other place in the bible where it says John was supporting Jesus. Don't you think it is odd.
There is another issue I believe that shows that there was a conflict between John and Jesus
In Malachi, it says, "'Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes ... '" (Mal 4:5,6). The "great and terrible day" that is referred to is the time when the Messiah comes, and thus this prophecy shows that before the Messiah comes, Elijah must first return.
Elijah lived nine hundred years before Jesus. There is record of his having ascended into heaven on a chariot of fire (2 Kings 2:11). The Israelites' longing for the Messiah was actually intensely focused on the arrival Elijah. This was because the Old Testament did not clearly foretell when the Messiah would come, but did clearly indicate that Elijah would precede him.
It was under these circumstances that Jesus appeared, proclaiming himself the Messiah. He told the Jewish people that he was the Son of God -- this to the very people who thought that he was simply a young man from Nazareth. they had not yet heard any news of Elijah's coming, so they asked, "How could Jesus of Nazareth be the Son of God?"
Later, when Jesus' disciples went out among the people of Israel, testifying to Jesus', the people doubted that Jesus was the Messiah and challenged the disciples by asking where Elijah was, since Elijah was to precede the Messiah. So Jesus' disciples turned around and asked Jesus, "' ... then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?'" (Mt 17:10). Jesus replied, "' ... Elijah does come, and he is to restore all things; but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they pleased ...'. Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist" (Mt 17:10-13).
Jesus' own disciples could easily believe this, but could the Israelites bring themselves to believe it? John the Baptist did not come directly from heaven, and John himself even denied he was Elijah
(Jn 1:21). They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?"
He said, "I am not."
"Are you the Prophet?"
He answered, "No."
When I add all this up, I see a big tragedy here. The last prophet before Jesus went his own way ending up in the personal scandals of the Herod while the true king was walking the earth.
I have a hard time reconciling all these events like everything was going as planned
Jesus was not upset or indignant with John, for he would not have said to the crowd: "What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed being tossed by a wind? What, then, did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Why, those wearing soft garments are in the houses of kings. Really, then, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and
far more than a prophet."(Matt 11:7-9)
Jesus was fully aware that John the Baptist was sent forth by God to "prepare" the nation of Israel for the arrival of him as the Messiah (Matt 3:3; Isa 40:3), telling them to "repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”(Matt 3:2)
And he was fully aware of the angel's declaration to Zechariah before John the Baptist birth, that "you will have joy and great gladness, and many will rejoice over his birth; for he will be great before Jehovah. But he must drink no wine and strong drink at all, and he will be filled with holy spirit right from his mother’s womb; and many of the sons of Israel will he turn back to Jehovah their God."(Luke 1:14-16)
The angel further said that John the Baptist "will go before him with
E·li´jah’s spirit and power, to turn back the hearts of fathers to children (Mal 4:6) and the disobedient ones to the practical wisdom of righteous ones, to get ready for Jehovah a prepared people.”(Luke 1:17)
Through Malachi, God foretold: “Look! I am sending to you people Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and fear-inspiring day of Jehovah. And he must turn the heart of fathers back toward sons, and the heart of sons back toward fathers; in order that I may not come and actually strike the earth with a devoting of it to destruction.” (Malachi 4:5, 6) Elijah lived some 500 years before those words were uttered. Since this was a prophecy, Jews of the first century C.E. were in expectation of Elijah’s coming to fulfill it.(Matthew 17:10)
Elijah was a man of much drive and force in his zealous service to God, and Elisha sought a two-part share in Elijah’s spirit as his successor. (2 Kings 2:9, 15) John the Baptizer demonstrated the same vigorous drive and energetic zeal that Elijah had shown, and this resulted in John’s having a powerful effect on his listeners; hence he could be said to have gone forth “with Elijah’s spirit and power.”
On the other hand, Jesus became thoroughly incensed with the religious leaders, for these failed to show the godly quality of mercy, with Jesus telling them that "if you had understood what this means, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless ones."(Matt 12:7)
These were ones that were "offended" or were "stumbled" over Jesus, for after having condemned them for having “made the word of God invalid” by means of their traditions (Matt 15:6), the disciples then says to Jesus: “Do you know that the Pharisees stumbled (“offended”,
King James Bible) at hearing what you said.”(Matt 15:12) These thus were “offended” or “stumbled” at Jesus words and powerful works.
At John 6, when Jesus had told the Jews that “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves”(John 6:53), rather than asking for more of an explanation, “many of his disciples” were stumbled or "offended" and said: “This speech is shocking; who can listen to it ?”(John 6:60) and “would no longer walk with him.”(John 6:66) These lost out on becoming “kings and priests’ in God’s kingdom.(Rev 1:6)
Jesus thus said that "happy is he that finds no cause for stumbling in me."(Matt 11:6) His apostles, instead of becoming “offended”, felt as Peter, who told Jesus: “Lord, whom shall we go away to ? You have sayings of everlasting life; and we have believed and come to know that you are the Holy One of God.”(John 6:68, 69) Hence, rather than being "offended" or stumbled, these stayed with Jesus. As a result, these were among the first ones chosen to serve in the official capacity of “kings and priests” on the day of Pentecost.(Acts 2:4)
John the Baptist was indeed a great prophet, but was not one of the ones chosen by God to “enter into the kingdom of God”, for as Jesus said: “Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a
lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.” Thus, John did not have the privilege of becoming one of the “joint-heirs with Christ.”(Rom 8:17)
Due to him dying (Matt 14:10) before the first selection of individuals who were anointed with holy spirit on the day of Penetecost 33 C.E., he was not among those whom God chose to become a “kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”(Ex 19:6) John himself said to his disciples: “You yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but, I have been sent forth in advance of that one. He that has the bride is the bridegroom. However, the
friend of the bridegroom, when he stands and hears him, has a
great deal of joy on account of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore
this joy of mine has been made full.”(John 3:28, 29)
Thus, John recognized that he was not of the “bride” of Christ, but rather was just a “friend of the bridegroom.”
John clearly recognized Jesus as the “Lamb of God”, as “the lace of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie”(John 1:27, 29), and told the religious leaders that this “one will baptize you people with holy spirit and fire.”(Matt 3:11) Both John and Jesus were sent forth by God to accomplish specific assignments.
The “great and terrible day” that is spoken of at Malachi 4:5 was not the arrival of Jesus, but rather is the same “day” as spoken at Joel 2:31, spoken of as the "great and fear-inspiring day of Jehovah." This “day” proved to be when the Roman armies came against the land of Judah in 70 C.E. , when, in fulfillment of his Word, Jehovah God caused the armies of Rome to execute divine judgment upon the nation that had rejected the Son of God and defiantly shouted: “We have no king but Caesar.”(John 19:15; Dan 9:24-27)
The book of Daniel foretold, down to the year, when the Messiah would arrive. At Daniel 9:24, it says that "there are seventy weeks that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies."
The timeline for the appearing of the Messiah is furnished at Daniel 9:25: "And you should know and have the insight that from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si´ah the Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks." The "going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem" was in the 20th year of king Artaxerxes (Neh 2:1, 5-8), or on 455 B.C.E. The completion of the 69 weeks of "years" (7 weeks + 62 weeks), or 483 years, was in the fall of year 29 C.E., the "fifteenth year of the reign of Ti·be´ri·us Caesar."(Luke 3:1) At this time, Jesus arrived on the scene as the Messiah.(Matt 3:13-17)
they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 
