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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...