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John the Baptist, by Titian. Mandaeans recognize several prophets. Yahia-Yohanna, also known as Yuhana Maṣbana (ࡉࡅࡄࡀࡍࡀ ࡌࡀࡑࡁࡀࡍࡀ Iuhana Maṣbana) [55] and Yuhana bar Zakria (John, son of Zechariah) [56] known in Christianity as John the Baptist, is accorded a special status, higher than his role in either ...
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
Mandaeans consider John the Baptist to have been a Nasoraean Mandaean. [136]: 3 [150] [151] John is referred to as their greatest and final teacher. [63] [136] Jorunn J. Buckley and other scholars specializing in Mandaeism believe that the Mandaeans originated about two thousand years ago in the Judean region and moved east due to persecution.
John the Baptist is also baptizing people nearby, at Aenon, near Salim, because water was abundant there, and people continued coming for baptism. John's disciples tell him that Jesus is also baptizing people, more than John it seems (John 3:26: "everybody is going to Him"). John replies that "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
The name "John" appears in the text as Yohannā or Yahyā. The former is pre-Islamic, whereas Yahyā is the form of the name known in the Quran . [ 11 ] However, besides the name Yahyā, as well as a few other Arabic names, no Arabic-language influence on the Book of John is detectable.
[web 9] After being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus teaches extensively for a year, or maybe just a few months, [web 9] [note 6] about the coming Kingdom of God (or, in Matthew, the Kingdom of Heaven), in aphorisms and parables, using similes and figures of speech. [69] [web 9] In the Gospel of John, Jesus himself is the main subject. [web 9]
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Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Zechariah writing, "His name is John". Pontormo, on a desco da parto, c. 1526. Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ, and the circumstances of his birth, as recorded in the New Testament, are miraculous. John's pivotal place in the gospel ...