John the Baptist
Letters[edit]
(John the Baptist had followers who refused to recognize that his dispensation ended with Christ)[edit]
"They that have turned aside from Me have spoken even as the followers of John (the Baptist) spoke. For they, too, protested against Him Who was the Spirit (Jesus) saying: "The dispensation of John hath not yet ended; wherefore hast thou come?" Now, too, they that have repudiated Us, though they have never known Us and have been at all times ignorant of the fundamentals of this Cause, knowing not from Whom it proceeded or what it signifieth, have spoken that which hath made all created things to sigh and lament."
John came with laws and commandments[edit]
"John appeared before Jesus, proclaiming his [John's] prophethood, and all sects of Islám recognize him as a prophet; and he came with laws and commandments..."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Badí, p. 159, quoted in World Order, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 4, in A Companion to the Study of the Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 119)
(John the Baptist is comparable to the Báb (as Christ is to Bahá'u'llah))[edit]
"This Manifestation and that of the Point of the Bayán [the Báb] are exactly similar to that of the son of Zachariah [John] and Jesus, the Son of Mary."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Asráru'l-Athár, vol. 4, p. 233, quoted in World Order, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 11, in A Companion to the Study of the Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 119)
To-dos for this page[edit]
- Incorporate quotes from House within https://bahai-library.com/mclean_john_baptist
