Are You Observing Something?

Jesus doesn't spend a lot of time in our New Testament account interacting with Essenes by name. Most of them are with the Pharisees and then when he goes to Jerusalem mostly in and around the temple, a lot of interaction with Sadducees. And then there's this huge group of Jews, the masses of the people that Jesus is going to spend most of his time among. Peter James, John, Andrew, Philip, Barthomium, all of these men, they aren't necessarily leaders or active participants in any of these four groups.