…in their peregrinations through time, but they claimed to be that branch of original christian intentionality that drew itself around John the Baptist. They were a baptismal cult, pre Christ, but just like 40 years before. And they then, in the diaspora,…

…with a gnostic intent. And they started, and they were probably, they started out as Jews, but they were persecuted. They claimed John the Baptist as one of their own, and he was a member of some kind of baptismal cult because we know he baptized…