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John the Baptist
Known as being rather eccentric for his day, John the Baptist was preacher and, according to some religions, a prophet during the time of Jesus. Questions about John the Baptist can be directed here.
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What did John the Baptist prophesy?
Mark 1:1-8 tells us that people came from all over to hear John the Baptist preach the repentance of sins and to be baptised. John prophesied to them of one to come, greater than he. Immediately, in Mark 1:9, Jesus comes and is baptised by John. When John baptises Jesus, the voice of God from heaven says to Jesus, "Thou art my beloved son." The story of John and the baptism of Jesus serves as an introduction to Jesus, telling us who he is. The sense of antecedent continues when the Holy Spirit takes Jesus into the wilderness for forty days, ministered by angels just as Elijah was ministered by an angel and in the wilderness forty days (1 Kings 19:5-7). Those familiar with the story of Elijah are likely to have assumed he fasted for the forty days, which brings into play another allusion, to Moses when (Exodus 34:28) he fasted for 40 days while he wrote the words of the Ten Commandments on tablets. Thus the gospel message is not only that Jesus was the one of whom John spoke, but also that he is the son of God and that he will continue the mission of Elijah and Moses.
Later in the Gospel, we are told that John was executed by Herod Antipas shortly after the baptism of Jesus, at the request of the daughter of Herodias, who asked for his head on a platter.
Mark uses an ancient literary technique, called a parallel structure, to emphasise the importance of the introduction of Jesus. In this, an opening set of events is mirrored by a second, parallel set in order to emphasise and reinforce the message of each event. The event that matches and emphasises the message of John, his baptism of Jesus and the continuity from Elijah and Moses is the Transfiguration (event B'). Herodias and her daughter conspire to kill John the Baptist in event Q (6:16-29), which forms a pair with the parable of the husbandmen who conspire to kill the vineyard owner's son (event Q' - 12:1-9). Less well known is the pair P, where Herod thinks that Jesus is John the Baptist risen from the dead (6:14), and Jesus asks whether the baptism of John is from heaven or of men, and the priests, scribes and elders can not answer (11:30-33):
A . John explains the coming of Jesus (Mark 1:1-8)
B .The baptism of Jesus (1:9)
C . The voice of God from heaven, "Thou art my beloved son" (1:11)
D . The forty days in the wilderness as an allusion to Elijah and Moses (1:13)
E . The people were astonished at what Jesus taught (1:22)
F . Jesus casts out an unclean spirit (1:23-26)
G . Pharisees took counsel with the Herodians how they might destroy Jesus (3:6)
H . Demons, whenever they see Jesus, fall down and say that he is the Son of God.
-- Jesus commands that they tell no one of this (3:11-12)
I .. Jesus calls the 12 disciples (3:13-19)
J .. Jesus rejects his own family: he has a new family, his followers (3:31-35)
K . Jesus rebukes the wind (4:36-41)
L . The demoniac, wearing no clothes (5:15), cries out that Jesus not torment him and Jesus sends out the demons (5:1-20)
M . Jesus comes into his own country (6:1)
-- Where he was brought up
N . The people misunderstand Jesus and he can do no mighty work (6:2-6)
O . Jesus sends out the disciples and curses those who will not receive them (6:7-11)
-- in sending the disciples with authority and expecting all to receive them, Jesus is asserting his own authority
P . Herod thinks that Jesus is John the Baptist risen from the dead (6:14)
Q . Herodias and her daughter conspire to kill John the Baptist (6:16-29)
R . Feeding the thousands, and related miracles and discourses (6:33-8:21)
S . Who do people say that I am (8:27)
T . Peter affirms faith in Jesus as the Christ (8:29)
U . Whosoever shall be ashamed of me: of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed (8:38)
V . The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and scribes (8:31a)
W . Be killed and after three days rise again (8:31b)
X . Prophecy of second coming (9:1)- Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw the kingdom of God coming with power.
B' .The Transfiguration of Jesus (9:2-3)
C' .The voice of God from heaven, "This is my beloved son" (9:7)
D' . Jesus talks to Elijah and Moses then to the disciples about Elijah (9:4-13)
E' .A great multitude was amazed at Jesus (9:15)
F' .Jesus cast out a dumb spirit (9:17-27)
G' .They shall kill the Son of man and he shall rise on the third day (9:31)
H' .Jesus clarifies his divine status, saying that he is not God: "Why call me good? There is none good but God" (10:18)
I' . Peter says the disciples have left all and followed Jesus (10:28)
J' . Those who have left their family for Jesus have a new family: all Jesus' followers (10:29-30)
K'. Jesus rebukes the 'sons of thunder', James and John (10:35-45 - cf 3:17)
L' .Blind Bartimaeus cries out for mercy and casts off his clothes, then Jesus heals him (10:46-52)
M' .Jesus comes into Jerusalem (11:1-10)
-- Where he will die
N' .Jesus misunderstands the fig tree that can provide no fruit (11:13-14)
O' .Jesus casts out them that sold and bought in the Temple and curses them for making the Temple a den of thieves (11:15-17)
-- Jesus is asserting his authority
P' .Jesus asks whether the baptism of John is from heaven or of men, and the priests, scribes and elders can not answer (11:30-33)
Q' .Parable of husbandmen who conspire to kill the vineyard owner's son (12:1-9)
X' .Prophecy of second coming (chapter 13)
-- on clouds of glory, within the lifetimes of some of those to whom he was speaking
R' .The Last Supper (14:17-25)
S' .Art thou the Christ, Son of God (14:61)
T' .Peter denies Jesus three times (14:66-72a)
U' .And when he thought thereon, Peter wept (14:72b)
V' .The chief priests, elders and scribes delivered Jesus to Pontius Pilate (15:1)
-- Delivering Jesus is a similar concept to rejecting him.
-- Both parts of the pair involve chief priests, elders and scribes
W' .Jesus dies and on the third day rises again (15:37, 16:6)
A' .The young man explains the departure of Jesus(16:6-8)
Just as John told of the coming of Jesus, so the young man in the tomb tells the women of the departure of Jesus, at the end of the gospel. Mark's Gospel originally ended at this verse (16:8) and the 'Long Ending' (verses 16:9-20) was added much later.
What was the sect or group to which John the Baptist belonged from birth?
Although it is not known for a fact, a conjecture is that John the Baptist was orphaned because his parents were old. He was taken in by Jewish monks called Essene who lived apart and in the wilderness. Evidence of this is the way that John is described in the Bible, from the wild, in goat hair clothes and living off the land. All of these are representative of the Essene. Essene are one of four parts of the Jewish faith.
Did John the Baptist believe that Jesus was the prophesied Messiah?
Yes, he preached about him. He was also his cousin. John the Baptist is still not sure about Jesus (he's in prison and is soon to die). He sends his disciples to ask, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" Well, if he isn't sure after seeing and hearing the events at Jesus' baptism, then how can anyone else be? Matthew 11:3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? I would say in my opinion that the Baptist knew Jesus was the anointed one or the son of God because John like Jesus was concieved from the spirit and not from a biological father and when John baptised Jesus God spoke to John saying "This is my beloved son,in whom Iam well pleased"
Did John the Baptist grow up in the wilderness?
>John the Baptist was six months older than Jesus when Herod made the decision to kill every male baby under the age of two for fear that a child from this age group would grow up and become King of the Jews and therefore displace him as King. Zacharias and Elizabeth the parents of John lived in the vicinity of Jerusalem which meant John was at risk of being murdered himself. Elizabeth stole John away and escaped to a mountainous area of Israel where he grew up in the wilderness and was raised on locusts and wild honey as his staple diet. John's father, Zacharias, was murdered by order of Herod near the alter in the Temple because he refused to disclose the whereabouts of his son(Matthew 23:35).>
The Zacarias son of Berechias was NOT the father of John The Baptist, it was Zechariah in the Old Testament.
What did John the Baptist tell the people to bring forth?
I think this has been answered before: "Come forth and repent your sins, get baptised in the river Jordan."
Jesus was asking his disciples who men thought he was. The answers were all great prophets, great men who had done the work of God. The key is that most people thought Jesus was a man, when He was/is so much more - He was/is the Son of God. He was testing his disciples, who passed, for when He asked them who they thought He was, Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
(found in Matthew 16:13-17)
Why did people like Herod and Pilate want to kill John the Baptist and Jesus?
Herod, like his father, was an evil man, jealous of his position and viewed Jesus as the prophisied of King and perceived Jesus therefore as a threat. Though professing to be religious Herod had closer ties with Godless Rome than his subjects. Pilate did not want to kill Jesus, in fact he gave the Jews an option to not so do. The Jews rejected that option, preferring a seditioness, murderer and thief be release to them and Jesus be crucified. Pilate stated he found no fault with Jesus but to please the Jews he released Jesus to them to be crucified.
What are the similarities between Saint John the Baptist and Jesus Christ in virtue?
John the Baptizer performed a work of preparing the way for the Messiah. As forerunner of the Anointed One, John was fulfilling Bible prophecy. He could have boasted about his privilege. John could also have tried to bring honor to himself because he was a fleshly relative of the Messiah. But John told others that he was unworthy even to untie Jesus' sandal. And when Jesus presented himself for baptism in the Jordan River, John said: "I am the one needing to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?" This indicates that John was not a boastful person. He was modest. (Matthew 3:14; Malachi 4:5, 6; Luke 1:13-17; John 1:26, 27)
After Jesus was baptized, he embarked on a full-time ministry, preaching the good news of God's Kingdom. Even though Jesus was a perfect man, he said: "I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative . . . I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me." Furthermore, Jesus did not seek honor from men, but he gave Jehovah the glory for everything he did. (John 5:30, 41-44) What modesty!
How was Saint John the Baptist's adulthood?
John lived in the desert, wore coarse camel hair clothing and ate locusts and wild honey. He preached redemption to anyone who came his way and baptized a repentance of sins.
What is John the Baptist eagle?
It is not John the Baptist but by traditions of men, it is the Gospel writer John.
Associating the great Chariot of God in Ezekiel 1, man placed the four images to the four Gospel writers as follows: a man or angel is Matthew; a lion is Mark; an ox is Luke; and an eagle is John.
Ezekiel 1:10New King James Version (NKJV)10 As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle.
Did John the Baptist proclaim himself to be the Liberator yearned for by the Jewish people?
First a point of clarification. The commonly held idea of a liberator coming to free the Jews from Roman domination was an idea that the Jewish people yearned for but was not supported by their holy writings. Their forefather Abraham had been promised by God that by means of his seed all mankind would be blessed (Genesis 22:15-18).
Jesus was this seed or the one that had been chosen to accomplish this purpose. This is evident in the titles used to describe Jesus. Both 'Messiah' and its Greek equivalent 'Christ' both mean 'anointed' or 'anointed one.' So strictly speaking Jesus had been anointed or chosen to be the savior of humankind - not a liberator of the Jews from their Roman oppressors.
John's purpose, on the other hand, was to ready the Jews for the arrival of the Messiah as indicated at Matthew 3:1-3 "In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Ju·de´a, saying: "REPENT, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near." This, in fact, is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet in these words: "Listen! Someone is crying out in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of Jehovah [God], YOU people! Make his roads straight.'"
Having said that John the Baptist never proclaimed himself to be a liberator. He was known as John "the baptist" not John "the liberator." From his own word he acknowledged the coming of Jesus as his superiority to him Luke 3:15-16: "Now as the people were in expectation and all were reasoning in their hearts about John: "May he perhaps be the Christ?" John gave the answer, saying to all: "I, for my part, baptize YOU with water; but the one stronger than I am is coming, the lace of whose sandals I am not fit to untie. He will baptize YOU people with holy spirit and fire."
What relationship between John the Baptist and Jesus is established by what happens to them?
Johns mother was Elizabeth the cousin of Mary the mother of Jesus. john was beheaded by king Herod and Jesus was crucified by the Romans on the cross.
Which Herod was involved in John the Baptist death?
The King involved was Herod Antipas (born before 20 BC) who was named to the throne of Galilee upon the death of his father, Herod the Great, in 4 BC.
References to John the Baptist's death is found in the Bible in Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, and Luke 9:7-9.
Where in the Old Testament is John the Baptist mentioned?
John the Baptist is mentioned in the John 1:23, which quotes this passage from Isaiah. It is accepted by Christians that this Old Testament passage refers to none other than John the Baptist.
Isaiah 40:3
"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
Are John the Baptist and John Mark and and John the evangelist related to Jesus?
There are 4 people called John in the New Testament:
-John the son of Zebedee
-John the Baptist
-John surnamed Mark
John a kinsman of Annas the High priest.
This last "John" is definitely not related to Jesus and can safely be disregarded, but what about the other 3?.
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Were James and John - both the sons of Zebedee - related to Jesus ?
(This John was the Apostle; that is, John the evangelist and writer of John's Gospel. )
Yes, they were related.
Salome [see Mar 15:40 KJV] was 'the mother of Zebedee's children' [see Mat 27:55-56 KJV ]. Zebedee's children were James and John [see Matt 4:21 KJV ] . This means Salome was Jesus' mother's sister of John 19:25.
Mat 4:21 KJV And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
That is, Salome was Jesus' Aunt, and sothis would make James and John [that is, the evangelist] cousins of Jesus.
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Was John the Baptist related to Jesus?
Mary the mother of Jesus, and Elisabeth the mother of John the Baptist, were cousins:-
Luk 1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, ...
Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name wasMary.
Luk 1:28 And the angel ... said, ....
Luk 1:30 ...., Fear not, Mary: ...
Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luk 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
This means that John the Baptist was a 2nd cousin to Jesus.
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Was John surnamed Mark related to Jesus?
Mark was the cousin of Barnabus:-
Col 4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (regarding whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, receive him),
[Or, to put it another way, Barnabus was Mark's uncle.]
Tradition has it that both Mary the mother of Jesus and Barnabus were twins, and that Mary was born first. This means Barnabus was the brother of Mary, and therefore that he was uncle to Mary's child Jesus.
John Mark was the cousin of Barnabus who was the uncle of Jesus, so this means John Mark and Jesus were cousins once removed.
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It was not Herods niece who danced but Herods own daughter Salome. She and her mother asked for Johns head on a platter as John told Herod it was wrong to marry your brothers wife.
What did Zechariah do after John was born?
After John was born, Zechariah wrote on a tablet "His name is John," regained his ability to speak, and blessed the Lord God of Israel with a prophecy. (Luke 1:57-79)
Why is John the Baptist considered someone crazy?
John the Baptist was not a crazy person. people believe that because they would NEVER baptize Jesus or do anything that John did. and since most people don't like to admit this they say that the people who do these things are crazy.
What is the origin of the name john in Hebrew?
John is written phonetically in Modern Hebrew as: ג'ון
The origin of the name John in Hebrew is Yochanan: יוחנן
The name Yochanan appears in the Hebrew bible as an army man: "But when Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done".
Why wasn't John the Baptist a disciple?
John the Baptist had his own disciples. The Bible says John's disciples practiced fasting (Mark 2:18), and he taught them to pray (Luke 11:1). Additionally, while John the Baptist was in prison, he sent two of his own disciples to ask Jesus if he was the coming One (Matt. 11:2-3). There may have been some competing interests between John and Jesus' disciples.
