That woman, Elizabeth, was the wife of this figure's father, the priest Zechariah.
A hymn to this figure, "Ut queant laxis," gave rise to the solf?e syllables. According to Luke, this figure's mother was "of the daughters of Aaron" and either cousin or aunt to Mary. That woman, Elizabeth, was the wife of this figure's father, the priest Zechariah. This figure called himself "the voice of one crying out in the wilderness", and said of Jesus, "I knew him not", and he also called Jesus the lamb of God. At the bidding of her mother Herodias, Salome asked for this figure's head on a dish, and Herod Antipas obliged. Sometimes called "the Precursor", for 10 points, name this man who got his epithet from ritually bathing people in the Jordan River, including Jesus Christ.
A hymn to this figure, "Ut queant laxis," gave rise to the solf?e syllables.
{John the Baptist} [or {Yo}-{khanan} ha-matbil]