In point of fact, many of the most faithful adherents of Jesus became such through the influence of John; and those who declined to accept Jesus were always staggered by John's explicit indication of Him as the Christ.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Each view had its adherents.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The adherents of the new school never raised a murmur against all this up till the eventful time of the socialist agitation and the formation of the new German Empire, and the reason is very plain.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae