Was Jesus a Copycat? The Role of John the Baptist in the Ministry of Jesus.
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Jesus is usually credited with starting the Christian movement, but were his ideas orignally his? It appears that John the Baptist preached a similar message and that Jesus was originally a follower of his. So who started Christianity?
In this episode we consider what we can know about John, why he engaged in his ministry, and what influence he had on his follower Jesus. If John started the movement, why isn't there a religion in his name?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to this week's misquoting Jesus. I have to admit a certain amount of ignorance on this week's topic. We're talking John the Baptist, and he's not a figure I know an awful lot about. I know even less about the historical of man. Do historians think he was a real person? How much of the New Testament is an accurate representation of him, and how much is mythologized legend. We're going to be getting |
| 0:21.8 | into all of that and so much more on this week's episode. Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:30.8 | The only show where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar |
| 0:36.9 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, |
| 0:41.5 | the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:49.5 | So apart from his practice of baptizing people, |
| 0:52.5 | what do historians know about the real man we |
| 0:55.0 | call John the Baptist? What role did he play in Jesus' ministry, if any? And why did he come |
| 1:00.3 | to be an important figure in Christianity? Before all of that, as always, Bart, how are you doing |
| 1:05.4 | this week? Doing just fine. Slugging along as we do. |
| 1:13.2 | Just keep going. |
| 1:15.3 | Yeah, are you keeping going? |
| 1:16.9 | Yes, I am actually. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, everything's ticking along quite nicely. |
| 1:25.0 | And the question that I had for you this week, I, in the throes of helping my six-year-olds with his reading and learning to read and all that exciting stuff. |
| 1:28.8 | And I was a voracious reader in my teens and early 20s. |
| 1:33.0 | So I wanted to ask, are you a fiction person or do you largely stick to nonfiction publications? |
| 1:38.9 | No, for pleasure reading, I almost never read nonfiction. |
| 1:42.5 | I mean, I do. |
| 1:43.5 | I'm actually rereading Nietzsche's genealogy of morals. |
| 1:47.0 | Not light reading. |
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