![]() ![]() ![]() If one thing seems nearly certain to the people who read and study the Gospels for a living, it’s that this really happened: John the Baptizer-as some like to call him, to give a better sense of the original Greek’s flat-footed active form-baptized Jesus. He comes down from Galilee, meets John, an ascetic desert hermit who lives on locusts and wild honey, and is baptized by him in the River Jordan. When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. Art by Salvador DalÍ, “Christ of St John of the Cross” (1951) / Culture And Sport Glasgow (Museums) ![]()
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