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Jesus Sets Out from Judæa for Galilee.
... by John the Baptist] for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things
which Herod had done [A full account of the sin of Herod and persecution of ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xxvi jesus sets out from.htm

The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... it was probably only until the alarm about Herod's persecution had subsided ... leaving
Hebron they entered the wilderness where little John the Baptist was in ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xvi the flight into egypt.htm

Jealousy of John's Disciples. --Final Testimony of the Baptist. ...
... 322.) This suits the place described in John, as Christ ... border town, to Judea; and
the Baptist may have ... it necessary, in order to avoid persecution, to betake ...
/.../section 120 jealousy of johns.htm

The Glory of the Martyrs.
... Here is St. John the Baptist, the fearless precursor of Jesus. ... Matthew 10.+ John
16.p>But in spite of all this hatred and persecution, they sowed the seed ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/chapter xvii the glory of.htm

Of the System of the Anchorites and Its Beginning.
... desert by reason of necessity, while during the time of persecution he was ... the vast
recesses of the desert, imitating, to wit, John the Baptist, who passed ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter vi of the system.htm

The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... In a similar sense Rome was a second Babylon, and John the Baptist another
Elijah. Notes. I. The Accounts of the Neronian Persecution. ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

The Spirit and Power of Elias.
... Elijah, and that nearer pinnacle the Baptist, is waiting ... The water of John's baptism
symbolised a negation, but ... for Jesus, to endure the persecution and trial ...
//christianbookshelf.org/meyer/john the baptist/xvii the spirit and power.htm

The Canons of the Blessed Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria, and ...
... Peter of Alexandria was martyred ad 311 in the persecution in the time of Diocletian,
carried on by Maximian. ... John the Baptist was taken by St. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/ii the canons of the.htm

"We must Increase, but I must Decrease. "
... During all this time the Baptist was continuing his ... the Jordan Valley, though now
driven by persecution to leave ... "John was not yet cast into prison," but the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/meyer/john the baptist/ix we must increase but.htm

The Law, and the Prophecy.
... his lamentations over Jerusalem, his holy grief, his bitter persecution he resembles ...
reappeared for a short season embodied in John the Baptist, and then ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 10 the law and.htm

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Matthew 14:3-12
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
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