{"slug": "john-the-baptist", "label": "John the Baptist", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40662", "qid": "Q40662", "description": "1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-4, 1844], "span_label": ["5 BCE", "1844 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "jesus", "label": "Jesus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "islam", "label": "Islam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zoroastrianism", "label": "Zoroastrianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bahai-faith", "label": "Baháʼí Faith", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tiberius", "label": "Tiberius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria-roman-province", "label": "Syria (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "josephus", "label": "Josephus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jordan-river", "label": "Jordan River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesus-christ", "label": "Jesus Christ", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -4, "year_label": "5 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "John the Baptist (d. c. AD 30)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371257874#5_BC", "title": "0s BC", "revid": 1371257874, "section": "Births › 5 BC"}}, {"year": 26, "year_label": "26 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist and begins his public ministry, according to some scholars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Palestine", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 26 AD › Palestine"}}, {"year": 27, "year_label": "27 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Using the dates and ranges listed in the Gospel of Luke, this year can be established as when John the Baptist begins preaching. It is also argued that Jesus was baptised by John in the final months of this year before his temptation and the first of three Passovers listed in the Gospel of John (another possibility is AD 29).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Palestine", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 27 AD › Palestine"}}, {"year": 29, "year_label": "29 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "According to the Gospel of Luke (Luke 3:1-2), the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus is thought to have started this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Palestine", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 29 AD › Palestine"}}, {"year": 32, "year_label": "32 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "John the Baptist, religious figure in Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#32_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Deaths › 32 AD"}}, {"year": 36, "year_label": "36 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Herod Antipas suffers major losses in a war with Aretas IV of Nabatea, provoked partly by Antipas' divorce of Aretas' daughter. According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist. Emperor Tiberius orders his governor of Syria, Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in AD 37.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 36 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The Báb is publicly proclaimed to be the promised one of Islam (the Qá'im, or Mahdi). He is also considered to be simultaneously the return of Elijah, John the Baptist and the \"Ushídar-Máh\" referred to in the Zoroastrian scriptures. He announces to the world the coming of \"He whom God shall make manifest\". He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh – the founder of the Baháʼí Faith – whose claims include being the return of Jesus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372570203#October–December", "title": "1844", "revid": 1372570203, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}