John the Baptist used total immersion in the River Jordan for believers ; ;

A biographer called him `` the premature John the Baptist of New England Transcendentalism ''.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

Later, he received Angelic administrations from the Apostles Peter, James, and John, John the Baptist, and others.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

Through him would come many other priests and prophets, including Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, John the Baptist and Jesus.

** Beheading of St. John the Baptist

# The head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the priests, and an ancestor of Zecharias the priest, who was the father of John the Baptist.

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

St John the Baptist Church

* St. John the Baptist School ( Aberdare )

Mitre worn by an Eastern bishop with icon s of Christ, the Theotokos ( Mary, Mother of God ) and John the Baptist | Forerunner ( John the Baptist ).

" One of the Baptist founders, John Gano, had also been the founding minister of the First Baptist Church in the City of New York.

* John the Baptist

The vision was taken up by all four Gospels and applied to John the Baptist and Jesus, leading God's people out of exile.

It has also been contended that the core verses of the book, in general chapters 4 through 22, are surviving records of the prophecies of John the Baptist.

* Graham, M. P, and McKenzie, Steven L., " The Hebrew Bible today: an introduction to critical issues " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 1998 )

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

* Gravett, Sandra L., " An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2008 )

* Penchansky, David, " Twilight of the gods: polytheism in the Hebrew Bible " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2005 )

After graduation, Madison remained at Princeton to study Hebrew and political philosophy under the university president, John Witherspoon, before returning to Montpelier in the spring of 1772.

* Graham, M. P, and McKenzie, Steven L., " The Hebrew Bible today: an introduction to critical issues " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 1998 )

John the Evangelist ( יוחנן Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan, Tiberian Hebrew Yôḥānān meaning " Yahweh is gracious ", Greek: Εὐαγγελιστής Ἰωάννης ) ( c. AD 1 – c. 100 ) is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John.

Mary of Bethany ( Judeo-Aramaic מרים, Maryām, rendered Μαρία, Maria, in the Koine Greek of the New Testament ; form of Hebrew מ ִ ר ְ י ָ ם, Miryām, or Miriam, " wished for child ", " bitter " or " rebellious ") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of John and Luke in the Christian New Testament.

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

* 1270 – The Sanskrit fables known as the Panchatantra, dating from as early as 200 BCE, are translated into Latin from a Hebrew version by John of Capua.

Although Hebrew and Greek words meaning " world " are used in Scripture with the normal variety of senses, many examples of its use in this particular sense can be found in the teachings of Jesus according to the Gospel of John, e. g. 7: 7, 8: 23, 12: 25, 14: 17, 15: 18-19, 17: 6-25, 18: 36.

Years later he gave John Milton lessons in Dutch in exchange for refresher lessons in Hebrew.

* The Sanskrit fables known as the Panchatantra, dating from as early as 200 BCE, are translated into Latin from a Hebrew version by John of Capua.

The scholar Erasmus noted in a letter of 1519 to the first President, John Claymond, that it was a library ' inter praecipua decora Britanniae ' (' among the chief beauties of Britain '), and praised the fact that it was a ' biblioteca trilinguis ' ( trilingual library ) containing, as it did, books in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks designed the Hebrew glyphs for the font family, as well as the Cyrillic, and Greek letters.

Pilate has a plaque fixed to Jesus ' cross inscribed, ( according to John ) in Hebrew, Greek and the Latin-Iesu Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum, meaning Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

The New Testament parables are thought by scholars such as John P. Meier to have been inspired by mashalim, a form of Hebrew comparison.

He returned to England in 1572, and might have become professor of Hebrew at Cambridge but for his expressed sympathy with the notorious " Admonition to the Parliament " by John Field and Thomas Wilcox.

This game has translated across multiple cultures from seemingly common routes and some international versions also use the name Simon such as the Spanish " Simón dice ", " Símon segir " in Icelandic, " Szymon mówi " in Polish, " 시몬 가라사대 " (" Simon says ") in Korean, In Arabia: for example, " الجنرال عمل كده " ( General commanded-Egypt version ) or " قال المعل ّ م " ( the teacher says-Lebanon version ) and " سلمان يقول " ( salmon says-Iraqi Version ) in Arabic, " Kommando Pimperle " ( or with similar rules " Alle Vögel fliegen hoch ") in German, " Jacques a dit " (" James said ") in French, " Jean dit " ( John says ) in Québec, " Commando " ( the Dutch noun for " command ") or " Jantje zegt " in Flemish parts of Belgium, in Dutch, " הרצל אמר " (" Herzl said ") in Hebrew, " Deir Ó Grádaigh " (" O ' Grady says ") in Irish,

Eighteenth-century theologian John Gill in his writing, A Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel-Points and Accents, disputed the idea that the vowel points were invented by the Masorites, and claimed that Hebrew authorities removed the vowel points because of their rejection of Jesus as the Messiah.

The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning " Yahweh has favoured ".

Hyrcanus from " Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " John Hyrcanus ( Yohanan Girhan ; Yohanan Hyrcanus – יוחנן הורקנוס, Ιωάννης Υρκανός ) ( reigned 134-104 BC, died 104 BC ) was a Hasmonean ( Maccabeean ) leader of the 2nd century BC.