John the Baptist
the Baptist (Mat 3:1) · the Forerunner (Mal 3:1) · voice crying in the wilderness (Jhn 1:23)
- Role
- prophet
- Era
- 5 BC–30 AD
- Passages
- 91
- Named in
- New Testament (5 books)
Preached repentance and baptised in the Jordan; executed by Herod Antipas.
The name
More than one form is recorded — a renaming, or the Greek and Hebrew of the same person. They are listed under one entry rather than as separate people.
Family
Veneration
- Roman Catholic
- Venerated — Saint John the Baptist Feast: 24 June; 29 August
One of the few whose birth as well as death is kept as a feast.
- Eastern Orthodox
- Venerated — The Holy Forerunner and Baptist John Feast: 24 June
Honoured immediately after the Theotokos in the order of the saints.
- Lutheran
- Commemorated — John the Baptist Feast: 24 June
Kept in the calendar; not invoked.
- Anglican
- Commemorated — John the Baptist Feast: 24 June
Read as a pattern
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Prefigured by Elijah
The prophet of Malachi's promise, read as the pattern for the Forerunner: the wilderness, the leather belt, the call to repentance before the day of the LORD.
Mal 4:5; 2Ki 1:8; Mat 3:4
Places named alongside
- Galilee 5 verses
- Jordan 5 verses
- Judea 2 verses
- Aenon 1 verse
- Bethany 2 1 verse
- Jerusalem 1 verse
- Nazareth 1 verse
- Salim 1 verse
Named in
- Matthew 3:1
- Matthew 3:4
- Matthew 3:13
- Matthew 3:14
- Matthew 4:12
- Matthew 9:14
- Matthew 11:2
- Matthew 11:4
- Matthew 11:7
- Matthew 11:11
- Matthew 11:12
- Matthew 11:13
- Matthew 11:18
- Matthew 14:2
- Matthew 14:3
- Matthew 14:4
- Matthew 14:8
- Matthew 14:10
- Matthew 16:14
- Matthew 17:13
- Matthew 21:25
- Matthew 21:26
- Matthew 21:32
- Mark 1:4
- Mark 1:6
- Mark 1:9
- Mark 1:14
- Mark 2:18
- Mark 6:14
- Mark 6:16
- Mark 6:17
- Mark 6:18
- Mark 6:20
- Mark 6:24
- Mark 6:25
- Mark 8:28
- Mark 11:30
- Mark 11:32
- Luke 1:13
- Luke 1:60
- Luke 1:63
- Luke 3:2
- Luke 3:15
- Luke 3:16
- Luke 3:20
- Luke 5:33
- Luke 7:18
- Luke 7:20
- Luke 7:22
- Luke 7:24
- Luke 7:28
- Luke 7:29
- Luke 7:33
- Luke 9:7
- Luke 9:9
- Luke 9:19
- Luke 11:1
- Luke 16:16
- Luke 20:4
- Luke 20:6
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