The Life of Jesus: resumen de Chapter 12

Qué sucede

1. John sends two disciples from prison to question Jesus, who points to his healing and his message of salvation for poor people.
2. At Antipas’s birthday feast, Salome follows Herodias’s prompting and requests John’s head; a guard executes him.
3. John’s disciples bury him and inform Jesus, who withdraws into the wilderness because he fears Antipas.
4. Jesus praises John as his forerunner, and his followers identify John with the expected return of Elijah.
5. The narrator rejects exaggerated accounts of John’s early recognition of Jesus, emphasizing the uncertainty expressed in his final question.
6. John’s school survives separately, overlaps with Christianity, and enters conflict with it before disappearing as a small Christian heresy.

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