تعريف saint john the baptist في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
(?12 BC-?28 AD) in the New Testament of the Bible, a religious teacher who told people that Jesus Christ was coming, and who baptized Jesus in the River Jordan. (about 12 BC-28 AD) a religious teacher in the New Testament of the Bible who baptized Jesus in the river Jordan. born 1st century AD Jewish prophet revered in Christianity as the forerunner of Jesus. Sources for his life are the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the historian Josephus. His mother, Elizabeth, was perhaps a relative of Mary; his father was the priest Zechariah. As a young man John lived in the Judaean desert, either as a hermit or as part of a Jewish monastic community such as the Essenes. He attracted much public notice AD 28 as a prophet in the Jordan Valley. He preached the imminent wrathful judgment of God and called on his hearers to repent and be baptized. Jesus himself came to be baptized by John and shortly afterward began his own mission. John was imprisoned for criticizing the illegal marriage of Herod Antipas and was executed after Herod's stepdaughter, Salome, demanded his head as a reward for dancing for the king's guests
A prophetic figure concerned about righteous behavior and purification, mentioned in the New Testament and in Josephus Because his concerns align so well with those of the Qumran community, some have suggested that he might have spent time in that sect, but there is no hard evidence to prove this
born miraculously as the son of the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, the cousin of Mother Mary, mother of Jesus A staunch ascetic and denouncer of religious hypocrisy, he baptized Jesus and others at the river Jordan, while announcing that he was only the forerunner of Christ who would baptize with fire Jesus referred to him as the reincarnation of Elijah (Matt 11 13-14) He was executed by Herod Antipas
The son of Zechariah, a priest, and Elisabeth (Luke 1: 5-24, 56-80), John was an ascetic who preached the imminence of judgment and baptized converts in the Jordan River as a symbol of their repentance from sin (Matt 3: 1-12; Mark 1: 2-8; Luke 3: 1-18) The Gospel writers viewed him as an Elijah figure and forerunner of the Messiah (Luke 1: 17; Matt 11: 12-14; John 1: 15, 9-34; 3: 22-36) who baptized Jesus but also recognized his superiority (Matt 3: 13-17; Mark 1: 9-11; Luke 3: 21-22) When imprisoned by Herod Antipas, he inquired whether Jesus were the expected "one who is to come " Jesus' answer was equivocal, but he praised John's work as fulfilling prophecy (Matt 11: 2-19; Luke 7: 24-35) At his step-daughter Salome's request, Herod had John beheaded (Matt 14: 6-12; Mark 6: 17-29) Some of John's disciples later became Christians (John 1: 37; Acts 18: 25)
Patron saint of missionaries He was sent "to prepare the way of the Lord " In Christian art he is represented in a coat of sheepskins, in allusion to his life in the desert; either holding a rude wooden cross, with a pennon bearing the words, Ecce Agnus Dei, or with a book on which a lamb is seated; or holding in his right hand a lamb surrounded by a halo, and bearing a cross on the right foot