(November 30, 2018 at 8:14 am)tackattack Wrote:(November 27, 2018 at 7:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Actually it does state that the events were not at the same time Boru. Taking the verse in context with the surrounding verses John 1:19-35 state this is is John's testimony of when the Jews and Levites asked him who he was. These events had to obviously happened prior to him witnessing and then testifying about them.]
The day after the testimony Philip and Nathanael began following the Lord, so the Lord must have been close by
Two days after his testimony day John runs into Jesus at a wedding.
This makes more sense. If I had to give my best guess, the testimony is probably an account of while John was in prison. This would've been an event removed from the wilderness. We also have to remember much of the setting of John's life was in the wilderness. He was considered somewhat of a "wild man" and it talked of him eating locusts and wild honey. Of course we also know he was beheaded, so he wouldn't have returned to the wilderness.