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John was a Nazarite from his birth(Luke 1:15; Num. 6:1-12). He spent his early years in the mountainous tract of Judea lying between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea (Matt. 3:1 - 12). He led a simple life, wearing rope (gamla) fiber clothing and eating "locusts and wild honey" (Ma...
Everyone is invited to bring their lawn chairs and beverages to enjoy outside while listening to live music on our church plaza. Other festivities include outdoor games for children and teens, like the dunking booth — Saint John was known for baptism, after all — and eating ...
John The Baptist (Ι᾿ωάννης ὁ βαπτιστήςor simply Ι᾿ωάννης, when the reference is clear, as in Mt 3:4; Mt 4:12; Lat. Joannes [Tacitus, Hist., 5, 12]; Heb.יוֹחָנָן denoting grace, or favor [see Simonis, Lex. N...
around his waist and was eating locusts and wild honey.7And he was[e]preaching, saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals.8I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”...
The most prevalent interpretations maintain that the locusts and wild honey, however construed, highlight John as Prophet, wilderness-dweller, ascetic or vegetarian. A recurrent weakness in many interpretations of Mk 1.6c/Mt.3.4c is that they ignore the possibility that this characterization could ...
John the Baptist is asked who he is. The Jewish leaders ask ‘are you that prophet?’ he says ‘no’. What prophet? The one Moses said would come ‘the Lord God will raise up a prophet unto you, like me. Whoever doesn’t listen to him will be destroyed’. We covered this in ...
32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: "We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry."33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, "He has a demon."34...
“perfect,” in this context, cannot mean Jesus Christ. It must mean something else…something else that, like Jesus, is perfect. I could (and have before, on this blog) lay out the manifold scriptures which state that the written word of God is perfect, but because most Christians are ...
John the Baptist Prepares the Way - The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: