{"id":15145,"date":"2024-10-29T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15145"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:06:02","slug":"did-jesus-baptize-anyone-with-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15145\/did-jesus-baptize-anyone-with-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Jesus Baptize Anyone with Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"

John,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Good Morning<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I read this sentence, it comes across as if Jesus is baptizing:<\/span><\/p>\n

John 7:22: \u201cAfter these things, Jesus went with his disciples into the land of Judea, and he spent some time with them there and was baptizing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Does it read that way to you?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n

==========<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hi Wendell.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, it does sound that way, and so does this verse from John 3:26: \u201cMen came to John and said to him, \u201cRabbi, 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!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u20132: \u201cThe Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples). . . .\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus himself never baptized anyone with John the Baptist\u2019s baptism in water as far as we know, but he did have his disciples to baptize repentant Jews with John\u2019s baptism after John was cast into prison.\u00a0 John’s work was unfinished when he died, so the disciples finished it for him.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1852018981772652582<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John, \u00a0 Good Morning \u00a0 When I read this sentence, it comes across as if Jesus is baptizing: John 7:22: \u201cAfter these things, Jesus went with his disciples into the land of Judea, and he spent some time with them there and was baptizing.\u201d \u00a0 Does it read that way to you? \u00a0 Wendell ========== […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145\/revisions\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}