Internalise

Reading about John the Baptist recently, has really confused me. John, who, lets face it, is a contender of someone with a really strong faith, (so much so that before in the womb he was happy that Jesus was around,) constantly builds Jesus up, baptises him, and lowers himself so Jesus can get higher. What worries me is his faltering faith, after all this, when he gets sent to prison and is treated bad. John asks Jesus whether he is the one, because John isn't seeing any miracles come his way, and gets a weird response from Jesus. And, after not receiving a miracle, John gets decapitated.

I'm having trouble about Jesus' response. John said something along the lines of 'Are you the Messiah? or is there someone else we are waiting for?' Which, although all of his life he's been a very strong believer, is saying "Why have you left me alone?"

Jesus shows John's messengers loads of miracles, and then he says in reply, 'Blessed is the man who doesn't fall away on the account of me."

Now, what does that mean? I genuinely don't know. I can kind of see his reasoning of making miracles happen in front of John's messengers, even though, if I'm in John's place, I wouldn't find any comfort in them. It would just rub in the fact that Jesus didn't help me, and it feels like he doesn't care for me. Unless, of course, John thought that Jesus wasn't doing any of this stuff at all, and he wasn't who he said he was. Then maybe, although John never saw any of this himself, this would have satisfied him.

What are other people's thoughts? Because I'll keep on thinking about this, and reading up on this more before I move onto something else.