JOHN THE BAPTIST - THE ESSENE
By Scribe Valdemir
Biblical evidence compared with the rules of community life of the Jewish sect of the Essenes, give strong evidence that John the Baptist was an Essene, and more, the Christian baptism in one act, is a variant of the daily ritual purification baths that the Essenes practiced in the caves of Qumran. The way of life that the Bible describes John the Baptist, compared with the rules of life of the Essenes, even the food habit of eating locusts, leads me to believe that Christian baptism is rather inspired in hallowed group of Jews that were in time of Jesus, the Essenes.
