*sigh*
NO i am not saying Jesus wasn't baptized by John. why are you so myopic??
i am saying that Jesus being baptized by John is not what saves our souls.
“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said.
“Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”
(Mark 10:38)
THIS is the baptism that saves. not the one done by human hands. the one in which Christ took our place and won for us our justification in Him.
Mark 10:33-38King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]33 [/SUP]Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
[SUP]34 [/SUP]And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
[SUP]35 [/SUP]And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.
[SUP]36 [/SUP]And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
[SUP]37 [/SUP]They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
[SUP]38 [/SUP]
But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
[SUP]39 [/SUP]And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
[SUP]40 [/SUP]But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
[SUP]41 [/SUP]And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.
[SUP]42 [/SUP]But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
[SUP]43 [/SUP]But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
[SUP]44 [/SUP]And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
bro you quote a scripture that is so way out of context it amazing...
this is what we were talking about...
Matthew 3:13-15King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
[SUP]15 [/SUP]
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
if it was necessary for him and it is necessary for us....since we are not going to be crucified like he was....(submission onto death)
water baptism is the submission of our death , burial and resurrection in him....