John the Baptist

====Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints====
[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] teaches that modern revelation confirms the biblical account of John and also makes known additional events in his ministry. According to this belief, John was "ordained by the angel of God" when he was eight days old "to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews" and to prepare a people for the Lord. Latter-day Saints also believe that "he was baptized while yet in his childhood."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/84?lang=eng|title=Doctrine and Covenants 84:27–28|publisher=churchofjesuschrist.org|access-date=14 February 2010|archive-date=20 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620141649/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/84?lang=eng|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Joseph Smith]] said: "Let us come into New Testament times – so many are ever praising the Lord and His apostles. We will commence with John the Baptist. When Herod's edict went forth to destroy the young children, John was about six months older than Jesus, and came under this hellish edict, and Zecharias caused his mother to take him into the mountains, where he was raised on locusts and wild honey. When his father refused to disclose his hiding place, and being the officiating high priest at the Temple that year, was slain by Herod's order, between the porch and the altar, as Jesus said."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html |title=Section Five: 1842–1843 |access-date=15 May 2014 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610161206/http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{sourcetext|source=Teaching of The Prophet Joseph Smith Section Five 1842–43, p. 261}}</ref>

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints teaches that John the Baptist appeared on the banks of the [[Susquehanna River]] near [[Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania]], as a resurrected being to [[Joseph Smith]] and [[Oliver Cowdery]] on 15 May 1829, and ordained them to the [[Aaronic priesthood (LDS Church)|Aaronic priesthood]].<ref>[D&C 13]; D&C 27:7–8</ref><ref>Joseph Smith History 1:68–72</ref> According to the Church's dispensational view of religious history, John's ministry has operated in three dispensations: he was the last of the prophets under the law of Moses; he was the first of the New Testament prophets; and he was sent to restore the Aaronic priesthood in our day (the [[dispensation of the fulness of times]]). Latter-day Saints believe John's ministry was foretold by two prophets whose teachings are included in the [[Book of Mormon]]: [[Lehi (Book of Mormon)|Lehi]]<ref>{{sourcetext|source=Book of Mormon|version=1981|book=1 Nephi|chapter=10|verse=7|range=–10}}</ref> and his son [[Nephi, son of Lehi|Nephi]].<ref>{{sourcetext|source=Book of Mormon|version=1981|book=1 Nephi|chapter=11|verse=27}}</ref><ref>{{sourcetext|source=Book of Mormon|version=1981|book=2 Nephi|chapter=31|verse=4|range=–18}}</ref>