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Jesus was profoundly moved by what He learned about His cousin John.
The story was brought down by traders from the capital how John was creating a furore, not only in Jerusalem but in all the countryside. The old-age child of Zachary and Elizabeth had grown in thirty years to be a giant. From birth John had been strong and powerful, as Mary well remembered. During childhood he had been brought to Nazareth on occasional visits, but in early manhood, after his father and mother died, the youth had vanished. For years his relatives heard little about him, although there were reports that he lived in a rocky cave in the blistered valley below Jerusalem near the Dead Sea, and that he ate only locusts and wild honey.