Did Jesus Baptize Anyone with Water?

John,

 

Good Morning

 

When I read this sentence, it comes across as if Jesus is baptizing:

John 7:22: “After these things, Jesus went with his disciples into the land of Judea, and he spent some time with them there and was baptizing.”

 

Does it read that way to you?

 

Wendell

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Hi Wendell.

 

Yes, it does sound that way, and so does this verse from John 3:26: “Men came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, behold, he is baptizing and everybody is going to him!”

 

You may not have been there last Sunday morning when we read two chapters from John, but I pointed out then that John clarified 3:26 by adding these verses in 4:1–2: “The Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples). . . .”

 

Jesus himself never baptized anyone with John the Baptist’s baptism in water as far as we know, but he did have his disciples to baptize repentant Jews with John’s baptism after John was cast into prison.  John’s work was unfinished when he died, so the disciples finished it for him.

 

Pastor John

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