Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

If Matthew's Jesus resembles Moses and Luke's Jesus ... that its members were in conflict with the followers of John the Baptist and were undergoing a painful separation from Judaism.

John the Baptist is patron saint of (among other things ... Perhaps you’ve heard that John is the guy we all have to go through in order to meet Jesus. He’s the forerunner, the precursor, the cold ...

In the first reading today, Moses intervenes to save his “stiff-necked” people from a wrathful God, furious because of the ...

This messenger is John the Baptist, who appeared in the desert of Judaea. John’s role was to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah. He did this through telling people to repent as the ...

John the Baptist preached in the wilderness ... Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the following reasons: baptism is for ...

Hundreds of Kentucky Baptist churches on Sunday took the message of John 3:16 to their congregations on 3:16 on 3/16 day, a ...

Perhaps you’ve never heard of St. Leonard or his sister who had also entered religious life, Sister Mary Genevieve.

In the early Church, there was quite a contest between the followers of John the Baptist and the followers of Jesus about who was preeminent. But the evangelists used that contest to underline the ...