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113of the River Jordan, where he used to baptize the penitent sinners who confessed their sins to him. While Matthew knows nothing of his relationship with Jesus (pbuh) , or does not care to report it, Luke, who wrote his Gospel, not from a revelation, but from the works of the disciples of the Master, records the homage rendered by to Jesus (pbuh) when both in the wombs of their mothers (Luke i. 39-46). He baptizes Jesus (pbuh) in the waters of the River Jordan like everybody else, and is reported to have said that he (John) was “not worthy to bow down to untie the laces of the shoes” (Mark i. 7) of Jesus, and according to the Fourth Gospel he (John) exclaimed thatJesus(pbtuhem) was “the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world” ( i. 29). That he knew Jesus (pbuh) and recognized him to be the Christ is quite evident. Yet when he was imprisoned he sends hisdisciples to Jesus (pbuh) , asking him: “Art thou he who is to come, or should we anticipate another one?” (Matt. xi. 3, etc.). The Baptist was martyred in the prison because he reprimanded an infidel Edomite, King Herod the Tetrarch, for having married the wife of his own brother. Thus ends, according to the narrative of the Evangelists, the life of a very chaste and holy prophet (pbuh) .It is strange that the Jews did not receive as a prophet. It is also stranger still to find that the Gospel of Barnabas does not mention the Baptist; and what is more, it puts the words said to have been uttered by concerning Christ into the mouth of the latter about Muhammad (pbuh) , the Apostle of Allah. The Quran mentions the miraculous birth of under the name of (Yahya),” but does not refer to his mission of baptism.The description of hissermon is given in the third chapter of Matthew. He seems to have announced the approach of the Kingdom of Heaven and the advent of a Great Apostle and Prophet of God who would baptize the believers, not with water, “but with fire and with the holy spirit.”