The original name for "John the Baptizer", from Galilean Aramaic: יוחנן צבעוא. It can also be spelled Yohanan, Yochanan, or Yokhanan. A 1st century Jewish sectarian, desert wandering ascetic and messianic revolutionist. He would tzeba'aize people on the banks of the Jordan river in preparation for the Messiah's arrival which he believed to be eminent. Yohanan is introduced in the Gospels as a prophet straight out of the Hebrew scriptures, wearing a camel fur pelt, a snakeskin belt, carrying a staff and eating honey and wild locusts. An eccentric apocalyptic figure that does a great job of highlighting the fervor of messianic expectation that was present among many Jews in the 1st century.
At that time Yoḥanan Tzebu'a arrived in Jordan from the Judean desert and began proclaiming the message of Besorah and exhorting them to the tzebaism of repentance for the absolution of incurred guilts.
Yoḥanan spoke, “Yes I tzeba'aize you in water for the absolution of incurred guilts; but there is one coming after me is more powerful than I—the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down an untie—he will immerse you in the Ruaḥ Qedushah the Spirit of Holiness, and with fire. Who's mizreh i.e. winnowing fork is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he shall consume with fire unquenchable!”
And Yeshua, having been tzeba'aized, suddenly arose, coming straight out of the water, and see! The shamaya heavens were revealed before him, the veil lifting, and Yoḥanan perceived the Ruaḥ d'Elaha Spirit of God descending, as if it were a dove, then it gracefully rested upon him: And see! A voice from the midst of the heaven saying, “At hu Bəri ḥabbibah, baḵ əṣtəbʿeṯ.” This is my Son whom I love, in him I am well pleased
Yoḥanan spoke, “Yes I tzeba'aize you in water for the absolution of incurred guilts; but there is one coming after me is more powerful than I—the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down an untie—he will immerse you in the Ruaḥ Qedushah the Spirit of Holiness, and with fire. Who's mizreh i.e. winnowing fork is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he shall consume with fire unquenchable!”
And Yeshua, having been tzeba'aized, suddenly arose, coming straight out of the water, and see! The shamaya heavens were revealed before him, the veil lifting, and Yoḥanan perceived the Ruaḥ d'Elaha Spirit of God descending, as if it were a dove, then it gracefully rested upon him: And see! A voice from the midst of the heaven saying, “At hu Bəri ḥabbibah, baḵ əṣtəbʿeṯ.” This is my Son whom I love, in him I am well pleased
by Messiah's Servant April 9, 2023