Why didn't JB join JC?

[Rev. Rye]

Well, that's a good Doylist explanation.

A Watsonian explanation would likely point out that this little event got in the way of John and Jesus doing much.


When I think about the stranger parts in the Bible, I tend to look for both explanations, if only because it makes shit more interesting.

And, yes, I did choose that one specifically because it belongs to my local, The Art Institute, which also has a few other paintings by the same artist covering the whole beheading saga.

Again we're dependent on the bible for that description of John the baptist's death, and as is well established, the bible is total fiction.

 And its being fiction is literally the point of the Watsonian/Doylist paradigm that I talked about.