Mikvah and John the Baptizer

[tonychanyt]

Mikvah (מִקְוֶה) is a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.

Tevilah (טְבִילָה) is a full body immersion in a mikveh

Wiki:

In October 2020, a 2,000-year-old mikveh was found near Hannaton in northern Israel.[11]
A mikveh must, according to the classical regulations, contain enough water to cover the entire body of an average-sized person; based on a mikveh with the dimensions of 3 cubits deep, 1 cubit wide, and 1 cubit long, the necessary volume of water was estimated as being 40 seah of water.[14][15]
Cases where the Torah or rabbinic law requires full immersion include:

• one who wishes to become pure after Keri[23] — normal emissions of sperm, whether from sexual activity, or from nocturnal emission. Bathing in a mikveh due to Keri is required by the Torah in order that one should be allowed to eat terumah or a sacrifice; Ezra instituted that one should also do so in order to be allowed to recite words of Torah.[24] The latter case is known as tevilath Ezra ("the immersion of Ezra"). In modern times it is no longer considered obligatory, but some perform it as a custom.
• one who wishes to become pure after Zav/Zavah (abnormal discharges of body fluids) or niddah (menstruation), or one who has come into contact with such people or their clothes or articles;[25][26][27] In particular, a married woman must immerse in order to resume marital relations with her husband.

Mikvah was practised at the time of John the Baptizer. However, John did not perform baptism just for ritualistic cleansing. Mark 1:

4 And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

 

[HTacianas]

Mikvah (מִקְוֶה) is a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.

Tevilah (טְבִילָה) is a full body immersion in a mikveh

Wiki:


Mikvah was practised at the time of John the Baptizer. However, John did not perform baptism just for ritualistic cleansing. Mark 1:

The Essenes, of which John the Baptist was one, used bathing as a form of ritual purity. Almost "cleanliness is next to godliness" you might say. That practice carried over into Christianity as a means of purity, but as the writer of 1 Peter said:

1Pe 3:21 There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Note that he says "not the removal of filth from the flesh". We tend to think of "filth" and "flesh" as sins of the flesh, but that is not the case here. He means literally the removal of dirt from the body. He is saying that baptism saves not by cleaning the body on the outside, but to give a clean conscience toward God by the removal of sin from within the body.

 

[RandyPNW]

Mikvah (מִקְוֶה) is a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.

Tevilah (טְבִילָה) is a full body immersion in a mikveh

Wiki:


Mikvah was practised at the time of John the Baptizer. However, John did not perform baptism just for ritualistic cleansing. Mark 1:

Thanks Tony. I had forgotten--I had been told this many years ago when I was on Usenet, discussing Jewish-Christian matters. I agree--John was using the Jewish practice as part of his prophetic calling to bring Israel to repentance, to prepare for the Day of the Lord, or more specifically, to prepare for the Messiah's imminent appearance.

 

[Dan Perez]

Mikvah (מִקְוֶה) is a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.

Tevilah (טְבִילָה) is a full body immersion in a mikveh

Wiki:


Mikvah was practised at the time of John the Baptizer. However, John did not perform baptism just for ritualistic cleansing. Mark 1:

I looked up Lev 22:6 and the Hebrew word was , MIKVAH and it is in the stem , QAL , in the PERFECT TENSE , and in the SINGULAR and it says it means ( wash , wash off or to bathe oneself , and where do you see that it is a full body IMMERSION ?

dan p

 

[RandyPNW]

I looked up Lev 22:6 and the Hebrew word was , MIKVAH and it is in the stem , QAL , in the PERFECT TENSE , and in the SINGULAR and it says it means ( wash , wash off or to bathe oneself , and where do you see that it is a full body IMMERSION ?

dan p

quoted from HERE...
Mikveh or mikvah (Hebrew: מִקְוֶה / מקווה‎, Modern: mīqve, Tiberian: mīqwe, pl. mikva'ot, mikvoth, mikvot, or (Yiddish) mikves,[1][2] lit., "a collection") is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism[3] to achieve ritual purity.
Formed from the Semitic root ק-ו-ה (q-w-h, "collect"). In the Hebrew Bible, the word is employed in the sense of "collection", including in the phrase מקוה המים (miqwêh hammayim, "collection of water") in Gen. 1:10, Ex. 7:19, and Lev. 11:36.[7] Ben Sira is the earliest author to use מקוה as a word for "pool" (Ecclus 43:20, 48:17) and the Mishnah is the earliest text to use it in the sense of "ritual bath".
A mikveh must, according to the classical regulations, contain enough water to cover the entire body of an average-sized person; based on a mikveh with the dimensions of 3 cubits deep, 1 cubit wide, and 1 cubit long, the necessary volume of water was estimated as being 40 seah of water.

 

[Dan Perez]

quoted from HERE...
Mikveh or mikvah (Hebrew: מִקְוֶה / מקווה‎, Modern: mīqve, Tiberian: mīqwe, pl. mikva'ot, mikvoth, mikvot, or (Yiddish) mikves,[1][2] lit., "a collection") is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism[3] to achieve ritual purity.
Formed from the Semitic root ק-ו-ה (q-w-h, "collect"). In the Hebrew Bible, the word is employed in the sense of "collection", including in the phrase מקוה המים (miqwêh hammayim, "collection of water") in Gen. 1:10, Ex. 7:19, and Lev. 11:36.[7] Ben Sira is the earliest author to use מקוה as a word for "pool" (Ecclus 43:20, 48:17) and the Mishnah is the earliest text to use it in the sense of "ritual bath".
A mikveh must, according to the classical regulations, contain enough water to cover the entire body of an average-sized person; based on a mikveh with the dimensions of 3 cubits deep, 1 cubit wide, and 1 cubit long, the necessary volume of water was estimated as being 40 seah of water.

The reason I asked is because there is Not a Greek word for IMMERSION , do I see where John the BAPTISMA / BAPTIZER promoted IMMERSION that I yet seen , unless you have a verse that I have never seen !

I have seen in Ezk 36 : 25 Christ will SPRINKLE clean water .
And in John 1:31 John , manifested himself to Israel , therefore am I come baptizing with water , and that mean water baptism was to Israel ONLY >

dan p