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John's gospel does not directly describe Jesus' baptism. [citation needed] John the Baptist was a 1st-century mission preacher on the banks of the River Jordan. [8] He baptized Jews for repentance in the River Jordan. [9] At the start of his ministry, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
The baptized person's identity in Christ is based on Christ's action in baptism rather than the person's action. [40] This union also unites Christians to one another. [41] Through the words of institution used in baptism, Christians are also united to each of the members of the trinity. [42] The Circumcision by Jacob Jordaens. Reformed ...
The Jewish believers with Peter were amazed, and the household was water baptized (Acts 10:44–48). While the apostle Paul was in Ephesus, he found disciples there and discovered that they did not know of the existence of the Holy Spirit and had only received John the Baptist's baptism. After baptizing them in Jesus' name, Paul laid his hands ...
Believer's baptism is administered only to persons who have passed the age of accountability or reason, which is based upon a reading of the New Testament that only believers should be baptized. The believer's full understanding is verified by leaders when a believer makes a profession of faith before baptism.
Here John mentions two manners of baptizings and two different baptisms, the one with water, and the other with the Spirit, the one whereof he was the minister of, the other whereof Christ was the minister of: and such as were baptized with the first were not therefore baptized with the second: "I indeed baptize you, but he shall baptize you."
John the Baptist, who is considered a forerunner to Christianity, used baptism as the central sacrament of his messianic movement. Christians consider Jesus to have instituted the sacrament of baptism. The earliest Christian baptisms seem to have been done either by immersion or by pouring water on the head three times. [1]
But if indeed John was sent only to baptize Christ, why was not He alone baptized by John? Because had the Lord alone been baptized by John, there would not have lacked who should insist that John's baptism was greater than Christ's, inasmuch as Christ alone had the merit to be baptized by it. [10]
He represented the group of "Judaizers", who demanded that all newly baptized Gentile Christians observe important Torah commandments, possibly also circumcision, i.e. conversion to Judaism. This is why Paul named him over Peter, who usually comes first in all lists of apostles, as the main partner in his negotiations on the Gentile mission.