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John was about 6 months older than Jesus.
(Luke 1:34-36) 34 But Mary said to the angel: "How is this to be, since I am having no intercourse with a man?" 35 In answer the angel said to her: "Holy spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason also what is born will be called holy, God's Son. 36And, look! Elizabeth your relative has also herself conceived a son, in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her,
Luke's Gospel says that John the Baptist was born miraculously to Elizabeth in her old age, six months before Jesus was born to Mary. The problem is that only the author of Luke's Gospel seems to have known anything about John's infancy or been aware of a family relationship between Jesus and John the Baptist, if such a relationship existed. Even the name of John's mother raises doubts as to the historicity of events that supposedly occurred many decades before Luke was written. John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman) says he is suspicious because Elizabeth in Hebrew would be Elisheba', a name that appears only once in the Old Testament, as the wife of Aaron, brother of Moses. Luke 1:5 describes Elizabeth as the daughter of Aaron, so the author must have had Aaron and Moses in mind when he wrote his Gospel.
Until the historicity of this part of Luke's Gospel is resolved, we must acknowledge we really know nothing about the family of John the Baptist, including whether his mother was really related to Mary or whether John was either older or younger than Jesus.
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Why is John the Baptist pictured as so much older than Jesus?
he is only 6mos. older
How much older was john than jesus?
According to historical records, John the Baptist was around six months older than Jesus.
What verse in the Bible is this found- how much older was John the Baptist than Jesus?
Luke 1:36 (6 months).
What are the differences of john and Jesus?
john is much older than jesus. john is the baptizer while jesus is the savior
How old was John the Baptist when he baptized Jesus?
At that time Jesus was 30 years old.
What was the river Jordan used for at the time of Jesus?
Well pretty much anything a river was used for but they did use it for baptisms. Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in it.
What do Winnie the Pooh and John the Baptist have in common?
Not much. John the Baptist had more in common with Moses' brother Aaron and Jesus had many more parallels with Moses. Both are considered Biblical prophets by Christians.
Who baptized john the Baptist's mum?
John the baptist' mother was never baptised at all until her son John baptised Jesus Christ (the first person to be baptised), it was only then that people decided to come up and be baptised. It never says in the bible if John's mother was baptised or not but she probably was. People got baptised at a much older age back then compared to today's tradition of getting baptised between the age of 0 and 3)
What did John and Jesus share in common?
Here the question is not at all clear , as to which John are you talking about here? If it is about John the baptist then they had something very much in common as they were cousins, both Jesus mother Mary and Johns mother Elizabeth were actually first cousins. Both were working for God.
What women accompanied John the Baptist?
Opinion:The Bible doesn't really say much about what women accompanied John the Baptist.
Is John the Baptism and Jesus relative?
John's mother Elizabeth and Jesus' mother Mary were cousins, so John and Jesus were second cousins. _______________________________________________________ New Testament Bible records suggest a relationship between Jesus of Nazareth and "John the Baptist," particularly in the Gospel of Luke. Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, and Mary, mother of Jesus are told to be cousins. The degree of "cousin-hood" is not specified. It is much more interesting to read the story of John, while still an unborn child, and perhaps 6 months advanced on Jesus, jumping for joy in the womb when his mother heard the story of Mary's pregnancy. It may never be proven from thousands-year-old records whether John the Baptist and Jesus were directly related. Were they "shirt-tail" cousins? I do not know. Did they meet at a baptismal purification ritual that changed the course of human history? Again, I do not know for sure. I only know that we are still talking about them both.
How does the beginning of Mark's Gospel compare to the beginning of the other Gospels?
A:Scholars have demonstrated that the Gospel of Mark was the first gospel to be written, and that the other gospels were based, directly or indirectly on Mark, rather than being written as independent records. Mark begins the story of Jesus with the story of John the Baptist, followed by the baptism of Jesus. Each of the other gospels provides an elaboration before this account, but otherwise begins with much the same story of John the Baptist. Matthew precedes the story of John the Baptist with the genealogy of Jesus, back through his father Joseph and grandfather Jacob, followed by the story of the birth of Jesus, the flight from Bethlehem to Egypt and the later journey to a new home in Nazareth.Luke adds a further elaboration, linking Jesus and John the Baptist through Elizabeth, a cousin of Mary. After telling the story of the birth of John, Luke then tells of the birth of Jesus and of their return to their home in Nazareth. In this account, the family had no fear of Herod or his son, Archelaus, so as pious Jews they travelled each year to Jerusalem for the Passover. The genealogy of Jesus is placed after the story of John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus, but in this case, the father of Joseph is called Heli.John does not give us a nativity story or a genealogy, but instead precedes the story off John the Baptist by a declaration that the Word was in the beginning with God and the Word was God.
