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 ...

Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the following reasons: baptism is for the forgiveness of sin, yet Jesus is God’s son and ...

From the very first scene of John's gospel when Jesus enters the story for the first time, he does so by coming to John the Baptist to be baptized ... of dynamic that we get, shaping the way ...

Immediately before the devil tempted Jesus, He was baptized by John the Baptist. Note that Jesus’s baptism marked the beginning of His Messianic ministry. The Bible records: "As soon as Jesus ...

"We have thousands of students showing up at these events and hundreds giving their lives to Jesus, hundreds getting baptized," Prewett said. "We're hearing testimonies from these students saying ...

This verse begins a chapter which assumes a reality I fear very few Western Christians actually believe. Have we ever really confronted the idea that Jesus, as soon as He is baptized and publicly set ...

The baptism is an event that is very important in Jesus’ ministry. In this story we see clearly the relationship between Father and Son and the use of the title ‘Son of God’. The events that ...