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135:2.3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist John] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Biblical_person) Elizabeth] returned to their [[home]] and began to lay [[plans]] for the [[future]]. Since John refused to [[accept]] the [[priest]]'s allowance due him from the [[temple]] funds, by the end of two years they had all but lost their [[home]]; so they decided to go south with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd sheep herd]. Accordingly, the [[summer]] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist John] was twenty years of age witnessed their removal to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron Hebron]. In the so-called " [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judean_desert wilderness of Judea] " John tended his sheep along a brook that was tributary to a larger [[stream]] which entered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea Dead Sea] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Gedi Engedi]. The Engedi colony included not only Nazarites of lifelong and time-period consecration but numerous other [[ascetic]] herdsmen who congregated in this region with their herds and fraternized with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarite Nazarite] brotherhood. They supported themselves by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd sheep raising] and from gifts which [[wealthy]] [[Jews]] made to the order.

135:2.3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist John] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Biblical_person) Elizabeth] returned to their [[home]] and began to lay [[plans]] for the [[future]]. Since John refused to [[accept]] the [[priest]]'s allowance due him from the [[temple]] funds, by the end of two years they had all but lost their [[home]]; so they decided to go south with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd sheep herd]. Accordingly, the [[summer]] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist John] was twenty years of age witnessed their removal to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron Hebron]. In the so-called " [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judean_desert wilderness of Judea] " John tended his sheep along a brook that was tributary to a larger [[stream]] which entered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea Dead Sea] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Gedi Engedi]. The Engedi colony included not only Nazarites of lifelong and time-period consecration but numerous other [[ascetic]] herdsmen who congregated in this region with their herds and fraternized with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarite Nazarite] brotherhood. They supported themselves by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd sheep raising] and from gifts which [[wealthy]] [[Jews]] made to the order.

135:2.4 As time passed, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist John] returned less often to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron Hebron], while he made more frequent visits to Engedi. He was so entirely different from the majority of the Nazarites that he found it very difficult fully to fraternize with the brotherhood. But he was very fond of Abner, the acknowledged leader and head of the Engedi colony.

135:2.4 As time passed, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist John] returned less often to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron Hebron], while he made more frequent visits to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_gedi Engedi]. He was so entirely [[different]] from the [[majority]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarite Nazarites] that he found it very [[difficult]] fully to fraternize with the brotherhood. But he was very fond of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_144#144:6._CONFERENCE_WITH_JOHN.27S_APOSTLES Abner], the acknowledged [[leader]] and head of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Gedi Engedi colony].

==135:3. THE LIFE OF A SHEPHERD==

==135:3. THE LIFE OF A SHEPHERD==