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The Qur'an says that Yāhya was the first to receive this name (Quran 19:7-10) but since the name Yoḥanan occurs many times before Yāhya, [12] this verse refers either to Islamic scholar consensus that "Yaḥyā" is not the same name as "Yoḥanan" [13] or to the Biblical account of the miraculous naming of John, which accounted that he was ...
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
The Quranic account of the disciples (Arabic: الحواريون al-ḥawāriyyūn) of Jesus does not include their names, numbers, or any detailed accounts of their lives. . Muslim exegesis, however, more-or-less agrees with the New Testament list and says that the disciples included Peter, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, Andrew, James, Jude, John and Simon the Zealot
Zechariah (Arabic: زكريا Zakariyya) is also a prophet in Islam, and is mentioned in the Qur'an as the father of Yaḥyā (John the Baptist). Zechariah is also believed by some Muslims to have been a martyr. An old tradition narrates that Zechariah was sawn in half, [15] in a death which resembles that attributed to Isaiah in Lives of the ...
Linguistically, the Islamic-era material can be found to date to the later stages of the composition and redaction of the Book of John. [10] The name "John" appears in the text as Yohannā or Yahyā. The former is pre-Islamic, whereas Yahyā is the form of the name known in the Quran. [11]
John the Baptist preached to people and baptised them. Prison: Matthew 11:2–7, 14:6–12 John the Baptist criticised king Herod Antipas for marrying his brother's ex-wife Herodias. John the Baptist was therefore arrested by Herod Antipas. John the Baptist, in prison, heard about Jesus' deeds, sent some disciples to ask if Jesus was the ...
John, the evangelist; John Chrysostom, the golden month; John Colobos, the short, one of the desert fathers; John of Egypt, the anchorite; John Kame, the priest; John of Patmos, the author of the Book of Revelation; John of Senhout, martyr; John of Qalyub, monk from the monastery of St. Pishoy, and martyr; Jonah, one of the minor twelve minor ...
For much of the 20th century, scholars interpreted the Gospel of John within the paradigm of this hypothetical Johannine community, [5] meaning that the gospel sprang from a late-1st-century Christian community excommunicated from the Jewish synagogue (probably meaning the Jewish community) [6] on account of its belief in Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah. [7]