How To Use John the baptist In A Sentence
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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.
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The baptism is being conducted by an adult, a robed figure with a halo and a maniple, presumably John the Baptist.
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We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.
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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.
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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'
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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
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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.
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We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist.
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Similar Sileni would be John the Baptist and the Apostles.
Desiderius Erasmus
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It was into this milieu of religious ferment, focused in particular on the temple and Jerusalem, that John the Baptist and Jesus came.
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The similitude is taken from some common custom among the Jewish children at their play, who, as is usual with children, imitated the fashions of grown people at their marriages and funerals, rejoicing and lamenting; but being all a jest, it made no impression; no more did the ministry either of John the Baptist or of Christ upon that generation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The conception of the Mother of God was beyond all comparison more noble than that of St. John the Baptist, whilst it was immeasurably beneath that of her Divine Son.
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Elizabeth, our beloved sister, on a peculiar tenure for the reddendum of a chaplet of white roses at the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist at the manor place of Gask.
Chronicles of Strathearn
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The basilica takes its name from John the Baptist and John the apostle, and also from the Laterani, the family of Constantine's wife, who donated the land on which the church stands.
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If you only tell the truth, then you know that john the baptist is not me.
Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 27, 2006
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He also says that Jesus could be a reincarnation of John the Baptist.
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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
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For Jews and Christians, it is part of the Holy Land, sacred for its connection to the Jewish patriarchs Abraham and Moses, as well as Christian biblical figures such as John the Baptist.
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Particular highlights include an extraordinarily beautiful large French panel, c.1500 depicting Charles VIII, and an extremely rare French thirteenth-century roundel depicting the execution of John the Baptist.
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Two heads are thought to be buried inside -- John the Baptist and Imam Hussein, the Prophet's grandson, who was killed by a rival Muslim force in the 680 A.D. battle of Kerbala in Iraq.
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The Son of God, who from eternity shares the fullness of life with the Father and the Holy Spirit, was "immersed" in our reality as sinners to make us share in his own life: he was incarnate, he was born like us, he grew up like us and, on reaching adulthood, manifested his mission which began precisely with the "baptism of conversion" administered by John the Baptist.
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Look at his wonderful tondo painting, the Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, where he makes the poison green and electric blue of the Virgin's mantle even more intense by placing them next to the bright yellow and orange mops of curly hair sported by the goofy Christ child and even goofier John the Baptist.
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After studying with Michelangelo, he produced such works as the tondo of the Virgin and Child with S. John the Baptist in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
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St. John the Baptist is the saint of adulthood, of maturity.
Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist
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The answer is, Saint John's Wort is named for John the Baptist since it's often harvested around the feast of Saint John the Baptist on June 24.
CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2004
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A necrological mass at the St. John the Baptist Cathedral follows before the interment at the Medalla Milagrosa Catholic Cemetery at 3 p.m.
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The smell is of locusts and wild honey, like John the Baptist's menu.
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For instance, St. Martha was adopted in 1276, St. Wenceslaus in 1298, in 1300 the feasts for the Nativity of John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, and Mary Magdalene were raised to totum duplex.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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In the basement of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Church - a small parish of about 50 people - a few dozen people are stuffing and shaping potato pierogies by hand.
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25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The towering central panel is set within a classical arch and shows the Virgin and Child enthroned, with the infant Saint John the Baptist to one side.
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There are also some 50 drawings, including the monumental "Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist" (sometimes called "The Burlington House Cartoon").
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From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.
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The tree, in the car park of St John the Baptist Church, was ‘badly scarred’ by the incident and a tree specialist told Millward that it will probably suffer from woodworm and rot.
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Over the centuries, John the Baptist has been its patron saint, and St. John the Evangelist has also been associated with the basilica.
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A fine piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shown to a
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
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On an old, dry river bend stand the ruins of an ancient chapel that Jordanians say is the site of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist.
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This is evident in the lives of the prophets, John the Baptist, the Apostles and the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
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The best biblical example of this was John the Baptist, whose heart-searching message of repentance prepared the way for the public appearance of Jesus the Messiah and the new covenant established through his death.
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As Barford points out, the only places where you would get a guaranteed good view is from the wings - or if you are playing John the Baptist.
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John the Baptist's murder might well have been similarly cast save for the tradition that followed him, which recounts the story in which he is a martyred saint.
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In the main prayer hall we stood before a reliquary said to contain the head of Zachariah, father of John the Baptist.
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In front of the duomo is the baptistery, a round structure, with a cupola surmounted by a statue of St. John the Baptist; it was erected in 1152.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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A dramatic piece will be a German limewood figure of St. John the Baptist circa 1515, carrying an estimate of £100,000-£150,000.
Renewed Interest in the Old
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For example, in the Gospel of the Ebionites we find that John the Baptist didn't eat honey and locusts, as the canonical Gospels record, but only honey.
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John the Baptist is the only saint singled out for inclusion in this liturgical manuscript.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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His love and his grace will move you to echo the words of John the Baptist.
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Mr. Lloyd, however, was in as great a mistake; for when insisting that the rite of baptism by water was to cease, when the _spiritual_ administration of CHRIST began, he maintained, that John the Baptist said, '_My baptism_ shall decrease, but _his_ shall increase.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
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Saint John the Baptist, which we know as the chapel of Merton College.
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
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The icon depicts a tall, thin, winged and haloed St John the Baptist in the desert, full-length and in three-quarter view to the left.
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A fine piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shown to a Turkish emperor; he praised many things, but he observed one defect; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck.
On Taste. Introductory Discourse
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From Matthew's account we learn that the conduct of Christ's disciples in neglecting fasting was animadverted on by the disciples of John the Baptist.
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Matthew says nothing of the conception and birth of John the Baptist, which is largely related by St. Luke, but finds him at full age, as if dropt from the clouds to preach in the wilderness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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In the basement of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Church - a small parish of about 50 people - a few dozen people are stuffing and shaping potato pierogies by hand.
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There was a hand-shaped reliquary containing an arm-bone (of St. John the Baptist?), which pointed at the sky just like John the Baptist is always shown doing.
Reliquaries: Saints Preserve(d for) Us!
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It is certainly not John the Baptist, nor John the Evangelist, nor James the Greater, nor James the Less; he must inevitably be some witling of a Hun, to write such abominable impertinence, or some ill-conditioned, malicious
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Nearby a dignified Rembrandt chatted to a wanton-looking Salome who was gaily clutching John the Baptist's head.
RESCUING ROSE
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Van Dale proved, then, by numberless authorities, not merely that the Pagan oracles were mere tricks of the priests, but that these knaveries, consecrated all over the world, had not ceased at the time of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, as was piously and generally thought to be the case.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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This was the oil they used to anoint kings and priests, and that upon John the Baptist anointing Jesus, Jesus sees a vision of God, and the Holy Spirit descends on him.
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The _Antiquities_ contain two references to John the Baptist and an account of the execution of James, the brother of Jesus; but the most celebrated of the "evidential" passages occurs in book xviii of the _Antiquities_, where in our text, following on the account of Pilate's persecution, occurs this paragraph:
Josephus
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And so the story ends with the martyred Saint John the Baptist.
