Life of John the Baptist

The Life of John the Baptist is a book from the New Testament apocrypha, purported to be written by Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in 390 AD. While its author claims to be a Coptic priest, the only surviving manuscripts are written in Garšūnī, i.e. Arabic language in Syriac script. The narrative of the text is an expanded biography of the biblical John the Baptist, drawing upon earlier sources in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of James.

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