Questions tagged [john-the-baptist]

Luke 11:1 (NIV) One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Since John the Baptist was the forerunner of Jesus who prepares the…

I realize this question is somewhat vacuous, since one could ask: "Why do the OT prophets exist? Why wasn't the story just: Eve + Adam eat from the tree of knowledge of good + evil. Then, God, immediately sends Christ down, who dies for humanity's…

After reading 2 chronicles 1-8 (many, many names) I was surprised that noone had the same name as their father, or grand father. I remembered the story of Zechariah not being able to talk until he told the name of his son, John. The people who…

At Matthew 2:16 (RSVCE) we read: Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to…