NOUN
- (New Testament) a preacher and hermit and forerunner of Jesus (whom he baptized); was beheaded by Herod at the request of Salome
How To Use John the Baptist In A Sentence
- In Psalms, to which St John the Baptist alludes, the trope of the ‘bridegroom’ occurs in a series of parallelisms, balanced by an explicitly competitive image.
- The baptism is being conducted by an adult, a robed figure with a halo and a maniple, presumably John the Baptist.
- We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.
- Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- And although that icon is not a full-faced depiction of the Baptist, as you will sometimes see in iconography, what you see is John the Baptist in relation to and communion with Christ and therefore opening himself to the communication of Christ through him to the beholder. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
- I pretended to be looking up St. John the Baptist but then turned over in a hurry to the L 's while she was washing her chalkboards. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
- Ever since Salome strutted her stuff for a plateful of chops (those would be the rather bristly chops of John the Baptist), women have recognised their power.
- We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist.
- Similar Sileni would be John the Baptist and the Apostles. Desiderius Erasmus
- It was into this milieu of religious ferment, focused in particular on the temple and Jerusalem, that John the Baptist and Jesus came.
