The prophet John the Baptist was confused. He had predicted that a “mighty one” soon would come who would “separate the wheat from the chaff,” the good people from the bad, in order to gather the good ...
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In this painting by Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908) John the Baptist tells Herod Antipas the Tetrarch and Herodias that their marriage is unlawful because Herodias had been Herod’s brother’s wife, which ...