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He romed the desert fasting and praying and he baptized people. He also proclaimed that Jesus Christ was coming.

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John was called at an early age to be a forerunner for Jesus Christ. The scriptures tell us that while on his mission he lived on honey and locust. The scriptures do not so that he had job as his responsibilty of foretelling the comming of Christ was his prime responsibility. Because of this he never married, but devoted what short life he had to fullfiling his forodained responsibility.

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