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#321 Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls - John Bergsma

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Five Ways That the Dead Sea Scrolls Illuminate the Gospels

John the Baptist ate bugs and honey. Josephus tells us another guy is eating off the land, but this explains the odd diet. If somebody got excommunicated, expelled, kicked out of the monastery, they were bound by a sacred oath not to eat anywhere else. And so this is why I surmised, John the Baptist was raised in this community probably and then kicked out. He's eating off theLand. Yeah. The Dead Sea Scrolls themselves confirmed this that when monks joined that monastery in the shores of the Dead Sea, one of the things they had to do was swear an oath Not to eat food prepared anywhere else for the rest of their life. This absolutely five ways

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