And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
Antiq. xviii, 5: Josephus relates, that John was sent bound to the castle ofMecheron, and there beheaded; but ecclesiastical history relates that he was buried in Sebastia, a town of Palestine, which was formerly called Samaria.
Otherwise; Even at this day we see that in the head of the Prophet John the Jews have lost Christ, who is the head of the Prophets.
