Who Baptized Whom? What the Hebrew Manuscripts Reveal About What Really Happened at the Jordan River
The Hebrew Book of Matthew 5 — Compilation Edition
The Sermon on the Mount as Preserved in Hebrew — Verse-by-Verse Study with Original Manuscript Images
From The Cochin Manuscript
When a Brooklyn hardware merchant asked Jonathan Felt if he wanted to immerse a pot in rainwater, it sparked a question his translation team couldn't shake: the same Hebrew verb used for koshering dishes — taval — is the verb used for what happened at the Jordan River. So what was John's actual role?
Drawing on five Hebrew manuscripts of Luke, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mishnah, and Torah purification law, this essay traces a pattern that holds from Genesis to the Gospels: the person needing purification always immerses themselves. Never once, outside a single instance, is it someone else who dunks them.
Study the Sermon on the Mount the way it was originally taught — in Hebrew. This resource presents Matthew Chapter 5 in the Hebrew Text Version (HTV), drawing on the Freiburg Hebrew Manuscript and the Cochin Gaster 1616 manuscript, with high-resolution images of the original Hebrew script alongside a fresh English translation and a full King James Version comparison for every verse.
Beyond the Beatitudes, this chapter covers Yeshua's teaching on the Torah's permanence, murder and anger, adultery and divorce, oaths and vows, retaliation, and loving one's enemies — with translator notes unpacking key differences from the Greek-based KJV tradition, including the retention of "in the Torah" (rather than "by the ancients"), the double-emphasis wording behind "fulfill," and manuscript notes on Gehinnom, the Menorah, and more.
Compiled by Miles R. Jones, Ph.D., and the Benai Emunah Institute for readers wanting to go beneath the English text to the Hebrew roots of Christ's teaching.
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