“I need to be baptized by you,” John told him ... Every time the New Testament calls Jesus the “Christ,” that’s the Greek version of the same name. At his baptism, Jesus was ...

The Revs. Ben Ford and Kathryn Almendarez say John the Baptist was correct in a sense for saying he should have been baptized by Jesus, but the event was also essential as the transference of the ...

That Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist is as certain as anything historians know about Jesus. It is somewhat clouded, however, in our present texts by the fact that later followers of Jesus ...

Being at the place where Jesus was baptized by St John the Baptist (the name of the school I attended) was quite monumental and moving. In a lifetime of travel experiences through 50+ countries ...

Since the beginning of Christianity, baptism and Jesus’ resurrection ... mean for their lives if their friendship with Jesus was discovered. John 20:19 even tells us, “The disciples were ...

Perhaps one of the best-known verses in the Bible, this verse from the Gospel of John tells us why God sent Jesus as a baby to minister to the world, offering each one of us an eternity in heaven ...

Three popes have visited the believed site of Jesus’ baptism on the Jordanian banks of the Jordan River: John Paul II in 2000, Benedict XVI in 2009 and Francis in 2014. Pope Paul VI first ...

The Revs. Ben Ford and Kathryn Almendarez say John the Baptist was correct in a sense for saying he should have been baptized by Jesus, but the event was also essential as the transference of the ...