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1 | Why was Christ baptized? | NT general Archive 1 | kalos | 2711 | ||
"And I did not know Him and did not recognize Him [myself]; but it is in order that He should be made manifest and be revealed to Israel [be brought out where we can see Him] that I came baptizing in (with) water" (John 1:31, The Amplified Bible). . . . "I didn't know who he was. But I came to baptize you* with water, so that everyone in Israel would see him" (John 1:31, Contemporary English Version). . . . *you. Here John was speaking not to or of Jesus, but to the other people to whom he was talking as he saw 'Jesus coming toward him'. . . . "...so that everyone in Israel would see him." He does not say so that he, John the Baptist, but so that "everyone in Israel" would see him (Christ). |
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2 | Why was Christ baptized? | NT general Archive 1 | Chris | 2722 | ||
Your absolutely right about that, I hadn't seen that in the passage, but I do believe that the remainder of the passage suggests that John, himself also realized who Jesus was after the baptism and descending of the Spirit, and I think the passage suggests that this was one reason for the baptism. Jn 1:32-34: John testified saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him. *I did not recongnize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'He upon whom [you] see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit*. I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." [you] - I assume that this is John, yea or nay? |
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