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  2. John the Baptist - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. History of baptism - Wikipedia

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    John the Baptist adopted baptism as the central sacrament in his messianic movement, [26] seen as a forerunner of Christianity. [citation needed] Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Christians consider Jesus to have instituted the sacrament of ...

  4. Baptism in early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    John's gospel does not directly describe Jesus' baptism. [citation needed] John the Baptist was a 1st-century mission preacher on the banks of the River Jordan. [8] He baptized Jews for repentance in the River Jordan. [9] At the start of his ministry, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.

  5. Christianity in the 1st century - Wikipedia

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    [web 9] After being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus teaches extensively for a year, or maybe just a few months, [web 9] [note 6] about the coming Kingdom of God (or, in Matthew, the Kingdom of Heaven), in aphorisms and parables, using similes and figures of speech. [69] [web 9] In the Gospel of John, Jesus himself is the main subject. [web 9]

  6. List of converts to Christianity from Judaism - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...

  7. John 1:19 - Wikipedia

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    It seems that John the Baptist often bore witness to Jesus, that He was the Messiah, both before and after his baptism. "The Jews sent ...": According to Catholic writer Robert Witham , these men were priests and Levites who appear to have been sent by the Sanhedrin to enquire of John the Baptist , who was then held in great esteem, to see if ...

  8. Baptism of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Mark, Matthew, and Luke depict the baptism in parallel passages. In all three gospels, the Spirit of God — the Holy Spirit in Luke, "the Spirit" in Mark, and "the Spirit of God" in Matthew — is depicted as descending upon Jesus immediately after his baptism accompanied by a voice from Heaven, but the accounts of Luke and Mark record the voice as addressing Jesus by saying "You are my ...

  9. Ministry of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The gospel accounts place the beginning of Jesus' ministry in the countryside of Roman province Judaea, near the River Jordan. [1]The gospels present John the Baptist's ministry as the precursor to that of Jesus and the baptism of Jesus as marking the beginning of Jesus' ministry, after which Jesus travels, preaches and performs miracles.