Did I mention he’s also the patron saint of baptism? What fascinates me about John is that our first-century friends made the decision to go out and hear him in the wilderness. They took the ...

We also have references to him in the Jewish historian, Josephus, who was writing toward the end of the first century. So John the Baptist is clearly a very important figure of the time.

First in John's Gospel ... Carthage in the third century and St. John Chrysostom in the fourth century encouraged infant baptism. It should be noted that during the third century, Christians ...