[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by garinda

I always thought Jesus and John the Baptist were cousins. Recently I read that in fact Mary, Jesus's Mother, and Elizabeth, John the Baptist's Mother, were cousins. Which would make Jesus and John only second cousins(?)

Yes but it's still a sort of cousin. Maybe they thought of family like they do in Ireland where everyone, even the fifth cousin four times removed, is referred to as a cousin.