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"I submitted my first draft to my English professor and he said this part was plagarized. How can it be rewritten not to be plagarism? honored John the Baptist with these words in a conversation with his disciples: “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist”[1] One reason that Jesus called John the Baptist the “greatest” was that John held the honor of being chosen by God as the forerunner to the Messiah. John’s mission was to personally prepare the world for Christ’s arrival. Mark showed in his writings that John was the Spirit-anointed bridge from the Old Testament to the New and was the last of the Old Testament prophets who stood on the cusp of a new dispensation[2]. Mark so eloquently, in his writings illustrates John’s preaching was the end of the Law and the beginning of the Promise. A positive foundation was laid out in Mark’s Gospel either through personal interactions and studies or first-hand accounts from Peter that John the Baptist was the last in the long line of prophets who predicted Christ, yet he was the only one who could actually see and recognized Christ in the flesh. John the Baptist's mission was meant 'to decrease' while Christ’s 'increased'. He did not operate in miracles because that would have not served the spirit of his mission. His main duty was to call every Jew to a Baptism of repentance in preparation of Christ ‘whose sandals he knew he was not worthy to untie'. Just as Elijah called Israel back to Yahweh as a lost people under God’s anger, so the Baptist called the Jews to be baptized   [1] Matthew 11:11a [2] The Great: Elijah: A Man Who Stood with God; Great Lives from God’s Word Series by Chuck Swindoll" eNotes Editorial, 29 Apr. 2020, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/i-submitted-my-first-draft-to-my-english-2275495. Accessed 24 Sep. 2023.