Lesson 667

(Lesson 667)(06-15-13) The next application of a variation of the term "baptize" is found in Mark 1:5, "And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins."

This application of the term "baptized" is Mark's account of the same event found in Matthew 3:6 and clearly implies that water is the medium into which these immersions occurred in that they were "baptized" IN the "river Jordan" a body of water.

All four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, give slightly differing accounts of these same events.

On another note from within this lesson, one could, from the literal reading of this verse, conclude that every soul living in Judaea and Jerusalem underwent the water immersion (baptism) administered by John the Baptist. This contention can be easily refuted in that the "Pharisees and Sadducees" along with many others, did not believe and therefore were not immersed with John's "baptism".~