Who Baptized Whom? What the Hebrew Manuscripts Reveal About What Really Happened at the Jordan River

Revelation Chapter 18 — Cochin Manuscripts Interlinear Workbook

Study the Book of Revelation Word-by-Word from the Oldest Surviving Hebrew New Testament Manuscripts of the Cochin Jews

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.

Step into the pages of history with this verse-by-verse interlinear workbook covering Revelation Chapter 18 — sourced directly from two remarkable 18th-century Hebrew manuscripts discovered in a "synagogue of the black Jews" in Cochin, India: Cambridge MS Oo.1.16.2 and Gaster MS 1616.

Rediscovered by Dr. Miles R. Jones and painstakingly transcribed and translated by an international team of Hebrew scholars, this workbook lets you read the actual Hebrew New Testament as it was passed down through the Cochin Jewish community — complete with page-view images of the original manuscripts, full Hebrew transcriptions, and a detailed interlinear chart breaking down every word's grammar and meaning.

Witness the fall of "Babel the Great" as the ancient Hebrew text describes it:

"Afterwards, I saw another messenger descending from the heavens, and he had power and great strength, and his light illuminated the earth. Then he cried with all his power, and said, 'Fallen! Fallen! Is the great city Babel!'" (Rev. 18:1–2)

Inside this workbook you'll find:

Verse-by-verse translation compared directly to the KJV
High-resolution manuscript images for every verse from both Cambridge and Gaster codices
Full Hebrew transcription with vowel pointing
Word-for-word interlinear analysis — grammar, root words, and English meaning for every term
Scholarly footnotes flagging manuscript variants, Second Temple-era vocabulary, and scribal corrections
Personal note-taking space to record your own insights

Whether you're a Hebrew student, a serious Bible researcher, or simply curious how the earliest Jewish believers preserved the words of Revelation, this workbook offers a hands-on window into a manuscript tradition almost no one has seen before.

Published by the B'nai Emunah Institute for Accelerated Learning.

“Dr. Jones and his team would love to share with you insights from our Hebrew Roots about this topic” – Writing of God (Benai Emunah Institute for Accelerated Learning)

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