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The Beheading of John the Baptist, Rombout van Troyen, 1650s, State Hermitage Museum; St John Reproaching Herod, Mattia Preti, 1662–66; St John the Baptist Before Herod, Mattia Preti, 1665; Decapitation of St John, British School, 17th century, Tate Gallery; John the Baptist Beheaded, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1851–60, World Mission ...
Salome delivers the head of John the Baptist, Juan de Flandes, 1496 Schematic family tree showing the Herods of the Bible. In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Herodias plays a major role in the execution of John the Baptist, using her daughter's dance before Antipas and his party guests to ask for the head of the Baptist as a reward. According ...
The Healing of a paralytic at Bethesda is one of the miraculous healings attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. [ 1 ] This event is recounted only in the Gospel of John , which says that it took place near the "Sheep Gate" in Jerusalem (now the Lions' Gate ), close to a fountain or a pool called "Bethzatha" in the Novum Testamentum Graece ...
A fresco in the cycle Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist by Filippo Lippi in Prato Cathedral; Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Strobel, early 17th century (Prado) The Feast of Herod, an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1635; Salome Dancing before Herod, Gustave Moreau, 1876
John the Baptist is the patron saint of the church and the parish. This is why the facade is dedicated to him. John is presented in the New Testament as the cousin of Jesus and the prophet who prepares the coming of the Lord (Luke), as the voice announced by the prophets inviting conversion (Matthew): John preaches in the desert, announces the ...
Prayers for Sick Family and Friends. 21. "Dear Lord, we come to You today to ask for relief from pain. [Name] is having a hard time and hurting greatly, and we wish to ask for your mercy.
The cycle occupies the two lateral walls and the end wall of the Cappella Maggiore, covering a surface of 400 m 2 (4,300 sq ft) in total. [2] At the left (looking from the nave towards the high altar) are the Stories of Saint Stephen, the titular saint of the church and patron saint of Prato; at the right are the Stories of Saint John the Baptist, the protector of nearby Florence.
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 ...