expectation. >> and it began with a baptism, as the gospels tell us, performed by the man who tradition and scholarship say was jesus' cousin and boyhood friend. john the baptist lived in the wilderness wearing camel skins, eating locusts and wild honey, and baptizing people in the jordan river to cleanse them of their sins. this was a radical new spin on the jewish purification bath. john was turning an ancient ritual into a new sacrament. >> john the baptist. he recognized jesus at the baptism. and he said, this is the man i've been waiting for, this is the person i'm preparing the way for. and he expected jesus to be the messiah of israel. >> and that's the message jesus took to the jewish people. as the gospels tell us, he returned home, found his first disciples among galilean fishermen.