John the Baptist
1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)
b. c. 6 BC · d. c. 30
John the Baptist was a religious preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, and Oriental Orthodoxy, Saint John the Immerser in the Baptist tradition, and as the prophet Yahya ibn Zakariya in Islam. He is sometimes referred to as John the Baptiser.
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Recorded as a historical figure.
- Gospel of Mark 3 claims — Baptism of Jesus; The Imprisonment of the Forerunner; The Beheading of the Forerunner
- Gospel of Luke 2 claims — The Nativity of the Forerunner; The Preaching in the Wilderness
- Gospel of John 1 claim — The Calling of the First Disciples
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- Child Saint John possibly same