Subject: Why was Christ baptized? |
Bible Note: "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). |