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Mar 22, 2013 · However, if you continue on just a few more verses, you will read (John 4:1-3): “Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ...
1 When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and returned to Galilee.…. and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
Oct 10, 2022 · Jesus’ baptism also showed that He identified with sinners. His baptism symbolized the sinners’ baptism into the righteousness of Christ, dying with Him and rising free from sin and able to walk in the newness of life. His perfect righteousness would fulfill all the requirements of the Law for sinners who could never hope to do so on their own.
Apr 1, 2002 · No. John 3:22 means that Jesus was superintending, or behind, the disciples and the baptizing, but He was not doing the actual physical baptizing as we know from John 4:2. The focus of water baptism during Jesus’ time (i.e., before the New Testament church) differed from ours today. It was like the baptism of John the Baptist; that is, it was ...
Oct 12, 2015 · The command to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost was given only at the ascension of Jesus. Before the ascension, there is no indication that there was a name used at all. John just said,"Repent and be baptised for the time is at hand". So John did not baptize using any name.
Nov 23, 2008 · Whatever saving work the Spirit does, he does because of Jesus. The Spirit does not flow like a fluid through the world unattached to Jesus. Everywhere he moves he moves with Jesus and for Jesus. That’s the first thing it means to say that “Jesus baptizes with the Spirit.”. 2) Jesus Immerses People in the Spirit.
Mar 4, 2022 · According to Matthew 3, Jesus allowed John to baptize him in order to give his blessing to John’s mission. Immediately following this, the Apostle John recorded in John 3:22 that Jesus was baptized. However, in John 4:2, he corrects himself by stating that Jesus did not baptize, but rather his followers did so.
