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John the Baptist

Ioannes Baptista la ܝܘܚܢܢ ܡܥܡܕܢܐ arc

1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)

  • Child of Zechariah and Elizabeth
  • Traditionally c. 6 BCE – c. 30 CE
  • Recognised as Canonized saint

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Family tree

As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.

The family as a list · 2

Kinship in an account 2

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

John the Baptist 1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

Connections

Identification 2

Documented influence 1

Recorded events and days 2

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