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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 1st 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 Yaḥyā ...

  3. Nativity of John the Baptist - Wikipedia

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    Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Zechariah writing, "His name is John". Pontormo, on a desco da parto, c. 1526. Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ, and the circumstances of his birth, as recorded in the New Testament, are miraculous. John's pivotal place in the gospel ...

  4. Luke 1 - Wikipedia

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    Luke 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.With 80 verses, it is one of the longest chapters in the New Testament.This chapter describes the birth of John the Baptist and the events leading up to the birth of Jesus. [1]

  5. Martin Scorsese brings John the Baptist's story of defiance ...

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    History knows him as John the Baptist – a fisher of men, a voice in the wilderness, the baptizer of Jesus, and a pillar of the Christian faith.. Though he met his end at the whim of a vengeful ...

  6. Template:John the Baptist narrative comparison - Wikipedia

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  7. Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist - Wikipedia

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    God cured Elizabeth's barrenness and granted Zachariah a son, Yahya (John the Baptist), who became a prophet. [11] God thus granted the wishes of the couple because of their faith, trust and love for God. In the Qur'an, God speaks of Zachariah, his wife, and John, and describes the three as being humble servants of the Lord:

  8. Intertestamental period - Wikipedia

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    It is considered to cover roughly four hundred years, spanning the ministry of Malachi (c. 420 BC) to the appearance of John the Baptist in the early 1st century AD. It is roughly contiguous with the Second Temple period (516 BC-70 AD) and encompasses the age of Hellenistic Judaism .

  9. Life of John the Baptist - Wikipedia

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    The Life of John the Baptist is a book from the New Testament apocrypha, allegedly written in Greek by Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in 390 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While its author claims to be a Coptic priest, only Syriac manuscripts of the text appear to have survived.