| We are called back to our baptism, when our old self was drowned in the waters poured over our head and we were reborn children of God. |
| A similar hesitation over the baptism of Jesus by John can be discerned in Luke's rehandling of Mark's account of the baptism of Jesus. |
| We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin. |
| So, baptism establishes the lay status of a believer by ordaining that person into the lay order. |
| The Holy Spirit came upon him at his baptism, consecrating him as the messiah. |
| From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism. |
