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  1. This Galilean preacher, whose
  2. teachings were likely close to
  3. those of the Judean desert sect,
  4. was John the Baptist. His bap-
  5. tism of Jesus as an adult is the
  6. root of the custom of modern
  7. Baptists to perform the chris-
  8. tening ritual in adulthood in-
  9. stead of at birth.
  10.