St. John the Baptist was born about six months before Our Lord. Scholars disagree as to the exact year in which Jesus was born, but it was probably between 6 and 4 B.C., though possibly as late as 1 B.C. Errors in reconciling the calendars and events of the ancient world, when dating from Christ’s birth was adopted in 525 A.D., accounts for Christ being born B.C., rather than 1 A.D.