No real facts or information about Jesus and how he became a healer and user of many herbs and medicines is recorded in the Bible or elsewhere. The Essenes had a community 3o minutes from Narareth where Jesus grew up. According to the Dead Sea scrolls the Essenes traded with many caravans to get rare drugs and medicines . They even had a large book describing all the known drugs in he known world at the time. What are the chances that Jesus may have been exposed to the teachings of the Essenes community  near him?  How did Jesus or Jeshua as he was called become a faith healer? How is it that he approved of Baptism as did his second cousin John the Baptist?

An accident ?  Hardly, it was not the normal belief of Jews in Jesus’ time that Baptism forgave sins.  The Essenes used Baptism everyday in their religious ceremonies as explained in the Dead Sea Scrolls.  The Essenes had a righteous leader 100 years before Jesus and they believed he would return by resurrection.  Sound familiar?  Jesus ministry copied the same thoughts of the Essenes. They too despised the rich and corrupt Jews in Jersaleum .

Jesus saved many lepers in his day, but how? With drugs?  How did he bring his cousin Lazareth back to life?   Perhaps lazareth was in a coma or trance and his sisters thought he was dead? Could Jesus who had no horse or donkey to ride,  have sent a strong medicine ahead with a courier?  It was a two day walk to lazareth’s house and Jesus had to walk it.

The Essenes had some powerful drugs from the roots of plants that could put a patient into a coma or trance. The Dead Sea scrolls describes these drugs. What if Jesus spent 15 years learning drugs and how to heal people from the Essenes?

I try to answer these questions in my novel called, “Jesus and John.” published by Xlibris publishers.

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