Life of John the Baptist Philip’s wife Herodias." Life of John the Baptist The Life of John the Baptist is a book from the New Testament apocrypha, allegedly written in Greek by Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in 390 AD. The text is an expanded biography of the biblical John the Baptist. Tony Burke, Associate Professor of Early Christianity, at York University describes the vita as: "begins with a harmony of details about John’s birth taken from the Gospel of Luke and the Infancy Gospel of James, finishing with the death of Zechariah and Elizabeth fleeing from Herod’s soldiers into the desert. After five years, when
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film) was ranked number 10 (in 2010) and number 7 (in 2011) in the "Arts and Faith" website's Top 100 Films, also is in the Vatican's list of 45 great films and Roger Ebert's Great Movies list. The film currently has an approval rating of 94% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with 32 "fresh" and 2 "rotten" reviews. At the 25th Venice International Film Festival, "The Gospel According to Matthew" was screened in competition for the Golden Lion, and won the OCIC Award and the Special Jury Prize. At the film's premiere, a crowd gathered to boo Pasolini but cheered