John

And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.

And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him.

But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?

And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired into Galilee:

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he said to him:

And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen.

And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind?

Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John:

For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil.

And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves in him.

For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into prison, because of Herodias, his brother's wife.

For John said to him: It is not lawful for thee to have her.

But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.

And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of John the Baptist.

The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But they thought within themselves, saying:

If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the multitude: for all held John as a prophet.

For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.

John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching the baptism of penance, unto remission of sins.

And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.