John the Baptist
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John the Baptist was a religious preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism,
Saint John the Baptist, a 1540 painting by Titian
The ruins of Machaerus at a hilltop overlooking the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan, where John's decapitation reportedly took place around 32 AD.
Salome is given the severed head of John the Baptist. Onorio Marinari, 1670s.
St. John the Baptist Preaching, c. 1665, by Mattia Preti
The beheading of John the Baptist, also known as the decollation of Saint John the Baptist or the beheading of the Forerunner, is a biblical event commemorated as a holy day by various Christian churc
John the Baptist
…report that some of Jesus's early followers had previously been followers of John. According to the New Testament, John was sentenced to death and subsequently beheaded by Herod Antipas around AD 30 after John rebuked him for divorcing his wife and then unlawfully wedding Herodias, the wife of his brother Herod Philip…
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Caravaggio, National Gallery, London, c. 1607–1610
Salome and the Apparition of the Baptist's Head by Gustave Moreau. Watercolour painting, 1876. Now in Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Icon of the Beheading of John the Baptist (Museum of Icons, Recklinghausen)