Luke 1:5-80. The Birth of John the Baptist

Zacharias was told that there would be joy, gladness and rejoicing with the birth of his son John. I believe was rejoicing over John the Baptists birth and mission because he would help lay a foundation for Christ to come and minister unto the people.  Without John it would have been much harder for Christ to gain support. John also did an important thing by baptizing the savior which helped in teaching the people that even Jesus Christ, the Son of God, needed to be baptized by proper authority in this life.  John’s birth was also very important because it meant that the savior of the world would come within John’s lifetime.  Also John’s father Zacharias prophesied saying that John would be called “the prophet of the Highest” (Luke 1:76). He would prepare the ways for the Lord to “give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins” (Luke 1:77).