John the Baptist of John arrested, executed, and buried in a tomb as a conscious foreshadowing of the fate of Jesus. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'" John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their
Return of Jesus to Galilee Return of Jesus to Galilee The Return of Jesus to Galilee is an episode in the life of Jesus which appears in three of the Canonical Gospels: , and , . It relates the return of Jesus to Galillee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist. According to the Gospel of John: The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. John's Gospel narrative refers to Jesus travelling