Is Jesus and St John the Baptist the same?

Answer 1

John the Beloved was a disciple of Jesus. he was never martyred for his faith.

John the Baptist foretold the coming of Jesus and later baptized Jesus. He was beheaded just as Jesus was beginning His ministry.

Answer 2

Yes. John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth (Luke 1:5). John, the disciple "whom Jesus loved" (John 20:2), and his brother James, were the sons of Zebedee (Matthew 4:21).

Answer 3

No, St. John was one of the 12 Apostles who wrote the Gospel of John and Revelations. John the Baptist was a preacher and baptizer near Jerusalem in the period just before and at the beginning of Jesus' preaching. John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod shortly after Jesus' ministry began.

Answer 4

A:John the Divine may refer to John of Patmos (author of the Book of Revelation), John the Apostle or John the Evangelist (author of John's Gospel). Different people see the beloved disciple, mentioned frequently in the fourth gospel, as one, two or all three of these identities.

As with all the New Testament gospels, John's Gospel was originally anonymous, leading the second-century Church Fathers to wonder who probably wrote the book. They noticed that the 'disciple whom Jesus loved' was only mentioned in the fourth gospel, which in turn never mentions the disciple John. On the strength of that coincidence, they decided that the beloved disciple was the apostle John. They then decided that the author of the fourth gospel was probably the same John, being too modest to use his own name in the gospel. Later, the Church Fathers also decided to attribute the Book of Revelation to the same author. So, by a chain of unlikely assumptions, we have all three identified as the one person, making John the Divine the same person as the disciple John, the beloved disciple, the author of John's Gospel and the author of Revelation.

Answer 5

No. They were two very different individuals.

Answer 6

Not at all, Jesus is the son for God (if you are Catholic and believe so) where as John the Baptist is one of Jesus' Disciples. John the Baptist baptized Jesus.