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)
John the Baptist was the sign in the invisible heaven who gave the tidings of the Manifestation of Jesus
[edit]"These Magi said: "Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east and are come to worship Him!"[1 Matthew 2:2] When they had searched, they found out that in Bethlehem, in the land of Judea, the Child had been born. This was the sign that was manifested in the visible heaven. As to the sign in the invisible heaven — the heaven of divine knowledge and understanding — it was Yahyá, son of Zachariah, who gave unto the people the tidings of the Manifestation of Jesus. Even as He hath revealed: "God announceth Yahyá to thee, who shall bear witness unto the Word from God, and a great one and chaste."[2 Qur'án 3:39] By the term "Word" is meant Jesus, Whose coming Yahyá foretold. Moreover, in the heavenly Scriptures it is written: "John the Baptist was preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent ye: for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand."[1 Matthew 3:1-2] By John is meant Yahyá."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, par. 70)
To-dos for this page
[edit]- Incorporate quotes from House within https://bahai-library.com/mclean_john_baptist
Table Of Contents
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1.1 Letters
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2.2 (John the Baptist had followers who refused to recognize that his dispensation ended with Christ)
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3.3 John came with laws and commandments
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4.4 (John the Baptist is comparable to the Báb (as Christ is to Bahá'u'llah))
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5.5 John the Baptist was the sign in the invisible heaven who gave the tidings of the Manifestation of Jesus
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6.6 To-dos for this page