After the scribes, priests and elders, asked Jesus by what authority He did the things He did, Jesus answered with the above question.
It is contextually evident that those Jewish dignitaries had not come to simply watch John administer water immersions, they had come to HEAR the controversial message he was teaching. Therefore, "baptism" as it is applied in this quote, refers to John's message as the medium into which those listeners were being immersed and has NO reference to the use of water.~
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