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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.
Did John the Baptist founded the first baptist church?
No. Both Baptists and Anabaptists have their names deriving from the idea that they would "re-baptize" people. By 1500's it had become normative to practice the Christian rite of baptism on infants as an expression of faith of the parents.Both Baptists and Anabaptists believed that baptism is to express the faith of the individual. Therefore, people who joined Baptist or Anabaptist groups were required to undergo "believer's baptism" even if they had been baptized as infants.John the Baptist was described as such because his most famous role in the Bible was as the one who baptized Jesus. Even though John did practice believer's baptism, he was not a "Baptist" in the Christian sense. John's baptism was a Jewish baptism of repentance. (The English term "baptize" is simply the transliteration of a Greek word meaning to dip or immerse.) It was pre-Christian.
