To truly understand and appreciate John's full impact on the ministry of Jesus, I highly recommend the commentary I wrote, "John The Baptist, The Last Aaronic High Priest". It will shed light on the importance of John's position in ensuring that all the requirements needed for Jesus to fulfill were completed.
A Miracle Birth
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.
Matthew 1:18-25
(Matthew 1:18) In This verse we read that six months after Mary’s (cousin or aunt) Elizabeth conceived John (Luke 1:5-25) that she was visited by an angel and told that the Holy Spirit will come upon her and she will conceive a Child (Luke 1:26-38). And that Child, “will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.”
Events of the life of Christ are recorded in all four gospels of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Three of them are referred to as the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke. In Matthew's account he makes the points that Jesus was the rightful heir to David's throne, and that HE is the prophesied Messiah. Matthews Gospel shows us that Jesus did not come to establish the kingdom on earth, but rather save man from his sins. In Matthew's account, we are also blessed with the greatest message ever given, the Sermon on the Mount, which has rightly been called the Christian Manifesto.
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