his strong, almost single-minded belief in neo as the one has very strong biblical correlations to that of john the baptist's belief in the prophecy of the messiah. like morpheus preaching about the imminent return of the one into the matrix, john was preaching in the desert of the messiah's imminent return, and actively searched for the messiah to come who would deliver his people from bondage. upon finding jesus, he believed so strongly in jesus as the messiah, john willingly stepped aside and let christ take up the groundwork that john had created and laid before him, and continue where john had left off.