Did John the Baptist Have Shmika?

The first person to kind of pronounce that jesus has shmicha? John the baptist. The one thing we do know is that he had at the very least what i might call rogue schmicha, like he had natural schmiha. We're told multiple time through the gospels that the crowds love the sky and people couldn't come after john because they feared the crowds. Jesus just got done saying, i'm telling you how to interpret tura, and now he's fwallowing it up by saying, "Shmika" And in fact, at the end of the sermon on the mount, you have a passage we're going to jumping ahead