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Pohn w«s the Christ. His answer was clear in its understanding of his mission: "I am only baptising you in water but someone is coming who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to untieHe will baptise you in the Holy Spirit and fire.” Pohn’s popularity was great . His message was producing a religious awakening. The situation was becomng uneasy. The Pohn who had first been looked on as * fanatic and indulgently allowed to give his teachings was now becoming a source of irritation. Once harmless, now he was dangerous. Hehad even confessed to have baptised a Messiah:

“This is the man of whom 1 spoke when I said, ‘After me there is coming a man Who is even now ahead of me, for he has existed before me! I did not know him,but it is in order that he may bbe made known to Israel that l have come and baptsed people in water.

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