He was an enthusiast and a desert-dweller.

Either he or his followers claimed that he was Elijah raised from the dead.

Elijah, you see, was one of our old prophets." "Was he seditious ?" I asked.
Pilate grinned and shook his head, then said: "He fell out with Antipas over the matter of Herodias.

John was a moralist.

It is too long a story, but he paid for it with his head.