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Ebionites and essenes are two different groups, ebionites were vegetarians, john the baptist's diet was based on locusts and honey

If he was an essene he was a banned one I think, that would make sense

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Yes but they all believed Jesus was circumcised as was jewish tradition at that time. I agree in that he would have been a banned Essenes as he did go on to form what we now call 'Christianity' after all

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Jesus certainly was circumcised, but to claim that john did it is a stretch, there are more reasons to suppose that joseph did it eventually, or even simeon. That or some unknown mohel, nobody knows, nowhere is mentioned who circumcised jesus

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Either way it was a Jewish tradition known as Brit Milah which has existed since the construction of the Second Temple 515BCE

After Christianity and Second Temple Judaism "split apart from one another", Milah was declared spiritually unnecessary as a condition of justification by Christian writers such as Paul the Apostle and subsequently in the Council of Jerusalem, while it further increased in importance for Jews.