Eleven Hebrew words related to baptism theology — faith, repentance, immersion, Messiah, salvation, atonement, sprinkling, blessing, righteousness, and breath — at skip 49 each land on a Torah passage whose surface meaning matches the word. Immersion on a verse about bathing in water. The Messiah on "my name is in him."
Observation, reproducible with els_searchForty-eight letters about the price of a slave. Hidden inside: the kiss, the bribe, thirty, innocent blood poured out, the hanging, the rope, the money returned, the prophet, the Judah root "to throw," the curse, and "they bought." Eleven elements of the Judas betrayal, each at a different skip, all touching one verse.
Kiss + Judah-root: closest pair on the verseThe Hebrew surname of the betrayer (סכריות) appears at many skips in the Torah. Two of those landings begin on the Hebrew word silver (Leviticus 27:15) and on the Hebrew word Passover (Exodus 12:27) — the feast where the betrayal happened. Surface-text landing is reproducible; multi-shuffle distinctiveness is moderate.
Observation, reproducible with els_searchThe Hebrew words for "faith" (אמונה) and "immersion" (טבילה) sit two letters apart at Deuteronomy 21:23 — "cursed is he who hangs on a tree." The crucifixion verse. Faith and baptism, touching at the place where salvation was purchased.
Observation, reproducible with els_proximityThe name "Nicodemus" (נקדמוס) appears once in the entire Torah — at Numbers 7:17, the offering of Nachshon ben Amminadab. In Jewish tradition, Nachshon was the first man to walk into the Red Sea by faith. Jesus told Nicodemus to be born of water and Spirit. The man told to enter the water is encoded at the man who entered the water first.
In the eight-term Judas study, the Hebrew word for "night" (לילה) appears at 11.1 times its expected frequency — the single most over-represented term. John 13:30: after Judas received the sop and departed, "and it was night."