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• But someone had been too quick for him and had already informed John in Gezer that his father and brothers had perished, adding, 'He is sending someone to kill you too!' (1 Maccabees 16, 21)

• Overcome as John was by the news, he arrested the men who had come to kill him and put them to death, being forewarned of their murderous design. (1 Maccabees 16, 22)

• The rest of John's acts, the battles he fought and the exploits he performed, the city walls he built, and all his other achievements, (1 Maccabees 16, 23)

• He suppressed the liberties which the kings had graciously granted to the Jews at the instance of John, father of that Eupolemus who was later to be sent on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Romans and, overthrowing the lawful institutions, introduced new usages contrary to the Law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)

• 'John and Absalom, your envoys, have delivered to me the communication transcribed below, requesting me to approve its provisions. (2 Maccabees 11, 17)

• In due course John the Baptist appeared; he proclaimed this message in the desert of Judaea, (Matthew 3, 1)

• This man John wore a garment made of camel-hair with a leather loin-cloth round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3, 4)

• But when he saw a number of Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism he said to them, 'Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming retribution? (Matthew 3, 7)

• Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. (Matthew 3, 13)

• John tried to dissuade him, with the words, 'It is I who need baptism from you, and yet you come to me!' (Matthew 3, 14)

• But Jesus replied, 'Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that uprightness demands.' Then John gave in to him. (Matthew 3, 15)

• Hearing that John had been arrested he withdrew to Galilee, (Matthew 4, 12)