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Elizabeth [a] was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke and in Islamic tradition. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived and gave birth to John.
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 ...
Zechariah and St. John the Baptist. A medieval Georgian fresco from the Monastery of the Cross , Jerusalem . According to the Gospel of Luke , during the reign of king Herod , there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia , whose wife Elizabeth was also of the priestly family of Aaron .
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.
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 ...
A 73-year-old Indian woman has become what is believed to be the oldest woman to give birth in the world - after giving birth to TWINS.. Erramatti Mangayamma has waited 60 YEARS to have children ...
Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter." And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given. He sent and had John beheaded in the prison, and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. [5]
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Massimo Stanzione, c. 1634; Salome Receives the Head of John the Baptist, Guercino, 1637, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, French Wikipedia page; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Guido Reni, 1639–40; The Beheading of John the Baptist, Rembrandt, 1640, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco