Elizabeth (biblical figure) a descendant of the prophet and priest Aaron. Zachariah and his wife were both devout and steadfast in their duties. They were, however, both very old and they had no son. Therefore, Zachariah would frequently pray to God for a son. This was not only out of the desire to have a son but also because the great Jesus Christ wanted someone to carry on the services of the Temple of prayer and to continue the preaching of the Lord's message before his death. God cured Elizabeth's barrenness and granted Zachariah a son, Yahya (John the Baptist), who became a
Gospel of the Nazarenes in the Hebrew language.(Eusebius, "Historia Ecclesiastica", 6.25) There exist two views concerning the relationship of the surviving citations from the "Gospel of the Nazarenes": Due to contradictions in the account of the baptism of Jesus, and other reasons, most biblical scholars consider that the "Gospel of the Nazarenes", "Gospel of the Hebrews", and "Gospel of the Ebionites" are three separate Gospels, even though Jerome linked the Nazarenes to the Ebionites in their use of the "Gospel of the Hebrews". Philipp Vielhauer writes of the Greek/Latin fragments collected as the Gospel of the Nazarenes that "Its literary character shows the GN