`Art thou that prophet?` do they mean the Prophet Mohammad?

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To understand this verse, one should first look at Deuteronomy 18:15-19 (KJV):

15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

The "prophet" referred to in John 1:21 is the same Prophet that is spoken of in Deuteronomy 18. For many years, the Jews had been looking for this Prophet to come. This Prophet is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Look at John 6:14 (KJV):

14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

This was after Jesus did the great miracle of feeding 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fishes. These people basically said that the miracle that Jesus did gives evidence to Him as being the "prophet."

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John 1:1 KJV

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Mohammed did not come down from Heaven.

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I understand that you thinks that the "prophet" and the "Christ" was different men, but the Holy Bible isn't interpreted as isolated verses. The Jews in that epoch failed in that matter too, because reading the prophecies you will infer that Jesus was:

  • The Christ;
  • The Prophet;
  • The Son of David
  • The Son of God;

Jesus did a lot of effort to make the Jews in that epoch understand this.

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The "that prophet" is held by a number of commentators to refer to Deuteronomy 18:15, where Moses said:

1815 : The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren — him you shall heed.

John believed this to refer to the Messiah, and he answered No; he was not that prophet. Neither was Mohammed the Messiah.

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As pointed out by others, many believe that prophet here refers to the Messiah expected by the Jews.

There is absolutely no reason to assume that the high priests were talking about someone who will come later on in the picture outside their clan. Being inside their clan is very important because, Jews believed that they are the Chosen people and the expected Messiah will be born among them. To be more specific they expected him to be born in the Jewish tribe of Juda (Genesis 49:10). They even knew where he will be born. (Matthew 2:4-6) They had lot of other prophecies about the Messiah. None of these prophecies matches the Islamic prophet. And hence it is not reasonable to consider that they were asking about him.

Historically unlike Jesus, the first person to claim that mohammad is the expected messiah is mohammad himself. No one else before him said anything of that sort.

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