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Zechariah
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father of John the Baptist; New Testament biblical character
Zechariah was a Jewish priest in the New Testament who became the father of John the Baptist, the figure who baptized Jesus. His story, found in the Gospel of Luke, describes how he and his wife Elizabeth were visited by an angel who announced they would have a son despite their advanced age, making him a significant figure in Christian accounts of Jesus's origins.
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- זכריה
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Zechariah was a Jewish priest mentioned in the New Testament and as a prophet in the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36). In the Quran, his story is mentioned in the initial verse of surah Maryam (chapter Mary).
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