12-JohnTheBaptist-I-Endnotes

JOHN THE BAPTIST - I �ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

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[1]� �� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:1 - In the fifteenth year of the rule of Caesar Tiberius....during the Chief-Priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas - John, Zachariah's son....

[2]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 11:7-8 (NIV) - Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John.� "What did you go out into the desert to see....a man dressed in fine clothes?"

[3]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:80 - The child grew up, healthy and spirited.� He lived out in the desert until the day he made his prophetic debut in Israel.

[4]�� SEE VOL. I, BIRTH OF A MIRACLE, "Bastion of Barrenness," and "Silent Thunderbolt"

[5]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:36 - And did you [Mary] know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is?�

[6]�� All statements of Jesus that are not actually in the Bible are speculations of the author based on inferred events.� Such undocumented statements are always in italics.

[7]�� SEE VOL. I, BIRTH OF A MIRACLE, "Silent Thunderbolt"

[8]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 11:7 (NIV) - Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John:� "What did you go out...to see?� A reed swayed by the wind?"

[9]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:1 - During the Chief-Priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas ~ John, Zachariah's son...received a message from God.

[10]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:5, 13 - During the rule of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest....His name was Zachariah....The angel reassured him, "Don't fear, Zachariah....your wife will bear a son by you.� You are to name him John."

[11]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:7 - But they were childless because Elizabeth could never conceive, and now they were quite old.

[12]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:4 - John...lived on a diet of locusts and wild field honey.

[13]�� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BOOK 17, 13:1 - When Archelaus...took away the high priesthood from [Joazar] and put Eleazar his brother in his place....Nor did this Eleazar abide long in the high priesthood, Jesus, the son of Sie, being put in his [priesthood] while he was still living.

[14]�� See VOL. I, ANGELS' SONG

[15]�� THE BIBLE, I KINGS 16:29-30; 17:1; 19:10 (NIV) - Ahab...became king of Israel....did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him....married Jezebel...and began to serve Baal and worship him....[Elijah} replied..."The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword.� I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."

[16]��� The Palestinian hills are pox-marked with caves.� King David centuries earlier lived in several of them during his years fleeing the spear of King Saul.� See THE BIBLE, I SAMUEL 22:1; 23:13; 23:29; 24:3.

[17]�� THE BIBLE, MALACHI 4:5 - "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes."

[18]�� THE BIBLE, EXODUS 39:1, 22, 28-29 -� From the blue, purple and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary....They made the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth....and the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands and the undergarments of finely twisted linen.� The sash was of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn ~ the work of an embroiderer - as the Lord commanded Moses.

[19]�� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 13:4; II KINGS 1:8; MATTHEW 3:4 - ....a prophet's garment of hair....[Elijah] was a man with a garment of hair and with a leather belt around his waist....John's clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.

[20]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:31 - I knew nothing about who he was - only this:� that my task has been to get Israel ready to recognize him.

[21]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:76 - "You [John]...'Prophet of the Highest,' will go ahead of the Master to prepare his way."

[22]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:3 - He went all through the country around the Jordan River preaching a baptism of life-change leading to forgiveness of sins.

[23]�� THE BIBLE, II CHRONICLES 4:2-6 - He made the Sea of cast metal measuring [15 feet] from rim to rim and [7-1/2 feet] high....The Sea stood on twelve [cast] bulls....It held [17,500 gallons]....the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.

[24]�� THE BIBLE, EXODUS 19:3, 6; Revelation 1:6 - Then Moses went up [Sinai] to God and the Lord called out to him from the mountain and said, "This is what you are to...tell the people of Israel....You will be for me a kingdom of priests....Has made us to be a kingdom and priests."

[25]�� THE BIBLE, COLOSSIANS 2:12 - If it's an initiation ritual you're after, you've already been through it by submitting to baptism.� Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ.

[26]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:32 (NIV) - Then John gave this testimony...."I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' "

[27]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:14 - Soldiers asked him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "No shakedowns, no blackmail ~ and be content with your rations."

[28]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:10-11 - The crowd asked him, "Then what are we supposed to do?"� "If you have two coats, give one away," he said.� "Do the same with your food."

[29]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:12-13 - Tax men also came to be baptized and said, "Teacher, what should we do?"� He told them, ";No more extortion - collect only what is required by law."� SEE ALSO VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Traitor."

[30]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:7-8 - When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded:� 'Brood of snakes!� What do you think you're doing slithering down here to the river?� Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference.� It's your life that must change, not your skin!'

[31]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:9 - "And don't think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father.� Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there.� Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen."

[32]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:10 - "What counts is your life.� Is it green and blossoming?� Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire."

[33]�� THE BIBLE, DANIEL 9:25 - "Know and understand this:� From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed [crowned] One, the rulers, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' "

[34]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:28 - These conversations took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan where John was baptizing at the time.

[35]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:24-26 - When Jews from Jerusalem sent a group of priests and officials to ask John who he was, he was completely honest.� He didn't evade the question.� He told the plain truth:� "I am not the Messiah."� They pressed him, "Who, then?� Elijah?"� "I am not."� "The Prophet?"� "No."

[36]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:26-27 - John answered, "I only baptize using water.� A person you don't recognize has taken his stand in your midst.� He comes after me, but he is not in second place to me.� I'm no even worthy to hold his coat for him."

[37]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:28 - ...took place in Bethany on the other [east] side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing at the time.

[38]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:13-15 - Jesus then appeared, arriving at the Jordan river from Galilee.� He wanted John to baptize him.� John objected, "I'm the one who needs to be baptized, not you!"� But Jesus insisted.� "Do it.� God's work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism." So John did it.

[39]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:16-17 - The moment Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened up and he saw God's Spirit ~ it looked like a dove ~ descending and landing on him.� And along with the Spirit, a voice:� "This is my Son, chosen and marked by my love, delight of my life."

[40]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:19-22 - When Jews from Jerusalem sent a group of priests and officials to ask john who he was, he was completely honest.� He didn't evade the question.� He told the plain truth:� "I am not the Messiah."� They pressed him, "Who, then?� Elijah?"� "I am not."� "The Prophet?"� "No."� Exasperated, they said, "Who, then?� We need an answer for those who sent us.� Tell us something ~ anything! about yourself."

[41]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:23 - "I'm thunder in the desert:� 'Make the road straight for God!'� I'm doing what the prophet Isaiah preached."

[42]�� THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 1:3-4; HEBREWS 4:15; 10:4, 11 [NIV] - He is to offer a male without defect....It will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him....Tempter in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin....it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins....We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

[43]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:29-34 - The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out, "Here he is, God's Passover Lamb!� He forgives the sins of the world!� This is the man I've been talking about....I knew nothing about who he was ~ only this...get Israel ready to recognize him as the God-Revealer.� That is why I came here baptizing with water, giving you a good bath and scrubbing sins from your life so you can get a fresh start with God."

[44]�� THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 1:3-4; HEBREWS 10:10, 12 - If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to offer a male without defect....to make atonement for him....We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ....offered for all time one sacrifice for sins.

[45]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1,14 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

[46]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:35-37 - The next day John was back at his post with two disciples, who were watching.� He looked up, saw Jesus walking nearby, and said, "Here he is, God's Passover Lamb."� The two disciples heard him and went after Jesus.

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