John the Baptist

John the Baptist

John the Baptist (c. 1st century BC – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, Saint John by certain Catholic churches, and Prophet Yahya in Islam. He is sometimes alternatively referred to as John the Baptiser. John is mentioned by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus and he is revered as a major religious figure in Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí faith, the Druze faith, and Mandaeism, the latter in which he is considered to be the final and most vital prophet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John the Baptist has received more than 8,756,456 page views. His biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). John the Baptist is the 11th most popular religious figure (down from 10th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Israel and the 4th most popular Israeli Religious Figure.

John the Baptist is most famous for baptizing Jesus and for being a prophet in the Old Testament.