John the Nazarene?

John the Baptist or Immerser is one of the key figures in Jesus’ life, as presented in the New Testament Gospels. His name “the Baptist” is often though to be a sectarian identification, identifying him with the Hemerobaptists or Tovele Shaharit (‘morning washers’), which engaged in daily ritual immersion each morning (Berakhot 22a). Epiphanius noted