Who was John the Baptist's cousin?

Answer 1

According to Luke's Gospel, John the Baptist and Jesus were second cousins, as their mothers, Elizabeth and Mary, were cousins. This information is not found outside Luke's Gospel, and the majority of New Testament scholars dismiss the story as unhistorical, with Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) saying that Elizabeth was a literary creation by the author of Luke's Gospel. So, on the scholarly view, John and Jesus were not related.

Answer

Yes. They were second cousins. Their mothers were first cousins. John was the one who baptized Jesus too. They were also the same age.

Answer 2

A:According to Luke's Gospel, John the Baptist's mother was Elizabeth, a cousin of Mary, mother of Jesus. Therefore, Jesus would have been a distant cousin to John.

On the other hand, Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) suggests that Elizabeth was not a real person and that the author of Luke created the story of John's birth. We can look at the evidence to see which of those views is most likely to be correct. Luke's Gospel is known as a 'synoptic' gospel because when laid alongside Mark's Gospel (and Matthew's) and read synoptically ('with the same eye') in the original Greek language, it can be established that Luke was based on Mark. Moreover, the 'Missing Block' demonstrates that where Luke's source was incomplete, he was unable to fill the gap with information from any other source or inspiration. Other evidence shows that Luke was written no earlier than the 90s of the first century.

What this means is that the author of Luke could not have known anything about the life of Jesus other than what he read in Mark, yet he confidently reported private family events that occurred at least a hundred years before the time of writing, providing the only gospel account that related John the Baptist to Jesus. Ranke-Heinemann would seem to have good grounds for assuming that Luke's story of the birth of John the Baptist was not really true, in which case we know nothing about his family except that he was most unlikely to have been related to Jesus.

Answer 3

Yes John and Jesus were cousins as Mary and Elizabeth were cousins.

Answer 4

No mary was elizabeths cousin making john marys second cousin he is not brother with jesus

Answer 5

John the Baptist.

Answer 6

No.