Waren Jezus en Johannes de Doper neven? Ze waren familie via hun moeders

Jesus and John the Baptist were related through their mothers, but no one knows how closely. In the King James Version the angel Gabriel calls Elizabeth, John’s mother, Mary’s “cousin” (Luke 1:36), though Luke’s Greek word means a kinswoman of any degree. One old tradition makes Mary and Elizabeth first cousins, and so Jesus and John second cousins. Only Luke’s Gospel mentions the family tie, and it gives the two of them a meeting before either was born. John was…