jesus himself to help us answer who really was john the baptist? the deserts in the first century. a wild place at the fringes of the roman empire. the promise of a new savior. his name is john the baptist. john the baptist is the first chapter to the long and amazing story of jesus. he tees it up for jesus to come and be the true maessiah. he comes with a fire and he wants people to feel it here. who are you? are you safe? why do you come here? he questions their motives. this is an intense figure out in the wilderness and the wilderness is where things really happen spiritually. he s a mysterious figure. he s strange and he s out there. he s dressed in this very, very old way and slightly dangerous and scary. today the unique appeal of this profit has been loss to history. who was this fiery creature who would har rold the coming of the messiah and what was it that drew jesus to it? now science joins history in a new quest in the future it may be possible to e
Possibility and john and jesus are related triggered the investigation into the study of john the baptist. with their ongoing quest to trace how relics are scattered, british researchers have come to the atkin museum in kansas city, missouri. they want to analyze the ancient treasure. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find. this is containing the relic. what s exciting about the kansas baptist relic is we got to compare the radio carbonated with the ones we obtained in bulgaria. the bones have been identified as a human bone.
She s been scheming for. give me the head of john the baptist. i think when john the baptist realizes that harrod is going to execute him, there is this astonishing sense of ending and conclusion, he knew as a prophet this is the completion of a pathetic call.
Cautionary tale to others that might stand up publicly against them as john did . in 2010, the world of archaeology was galvanized by the discovery in bulgaria of a relic whose date and dna are compatible with those of john the baptist. in oxford s archaeology lab, tom and georges wait for the results of this new test. as they work to build up a comprehensive date map of john the baptist s relics across europe, could this latest test match the individual from bulgaria? you can see here is the the actual date, that it s between 661 to 770 a.d. right. so that s much younger than john the baptist.
From heaven, you are my son. the beloved, with you, i am well pleased. now he feels the call to go spread his message. this is the beginning of jesus s ministry. when they met. when john the baptist s charisma and his preaching ability and his criticisms of the powers of the day when all of that hit je jesus ears, i imagine it sparks all of that ability to preach that jesus had and launched him into his ministry. but, for biblical historians, there is a dilemma. there is something that s not being said here. all the gospels emphasized that