A question

[Adonaijah]

I might have overlooked the scripture that tells who baptized the apostles, does anyone know the scripture book and verse? Thanks.

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

They were baptised by the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost(Acts2,Acts11:15-16)

[Arthur Durnan]

And too, the disciples being raised up out of the waters of baptism, were then & there, before the onlooking world, raised to new life in Christ, which is what the believers' baptism is all about. DOWN INTO the grave with Jesus; UP OUT OF the grave with Jesus. Publicly identified as such. Only sprinkling hardly cuts it. Amen & Amen!

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[Leonard]

Actually in the pericope cited above, where John's disciples had consternation over Jesus' baptisms, the Scripture plainly says that '...Jesus baptized not; but His disciples.....'

We know that Jesus picked up at least two of His 12 Apostles out of John's Ministry, and with John's blessing, so these were already baptized. But we have NO IDEA who baptized the others. We should not that John's was not the first baptismal movement to sweep the Jordan valley, and that ALL Jews were familiar with baptism.

[Floatingaxe]

Interesting that I was reading that passage this morning and made note of it in my journal! Jesus did not baptize, and that was something I hadn't taken note of before! Indeed, the diciples who were baptized apart from John must have been baptized by each other, just as we do today, many of us.

[Guest lovinghim4ever]

Jesus did not baptize, and that was something I hadn't taken note of before!

Thanks for pointing this out. I never noticed this either.

Jesus Himself never actually baptized anyone in water?

Interesting!

Why do you think that is?

[Guest lovinghim4ever]

Jesus did not baptize, and that was something I hadn't taken note of before!

Thanks for pointing this out. I never noticed this either.

Jesus Himself never actually baptized anyone in water?

Interesting!

Why do you think that is?

:39:

To fulfill what John said. John 1:33 The Lord baptised with the Holy Spirit.

Okay, that does make a little sense, however why couldn't Jesus do both?

Why couldn't He baptize in water and in the Holy Spirit?

[JB Horn]

I might have overlooked the scripture that tells who baptized the apostles, does anyone know the scripture book and verse? Thanks.

No one in Jesus life time was baptized in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Ghost.

The commandment came after His resurrection.

Matthew 28:19

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

So we can assume that the apostles received a deferent baptism.

[JB Horn]

Jesus did not baptize, and that was something I hadn't taken note of before!

Thanks for pointing this out. I never noticed this either.

Jesus Himself never actually baptized anyone in water?

Interesting!

Why do you think that is?

:39:

To fulfill what John said. John 1:33 The Lord baptised with the Holy Spirit.

Okay, that does make a little sense, however why couldn't Jesus do both?

Why couldn't He baptize in water and in the Holy Spirit?

That would have made John a faults prophet and Jesus would not have been the Christ. For John said that the Christ would NOT baptize with water.

[Openly Curious]

Jesus did baptize but not with water. Jesus's baptism was the baptism of newness of life as when we accept Christ as our Saviour we are baptized in Christ at that moment as we die to our old life and are raised in newness of life being made a new creature in Christ this is the baptism it speaks about in Romans chapter 6 that Jesus baptized with as the promise of the Holy Spirit baptism came later after Christ's resurrection on the day of pentecost. The water baptism of John only symbolized this newness of life that came from the lamb of God who came to take away the sins of the world as the Holy Spirit had descended upon Christ in the form of a dove as there was a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved Son testifying to Christ being the Saviour of the world.

But John's baptism only symbolized the baptism of Christ being born again and dying out to self and being resurrected spiritually to newness of life in Christ. So who baptized the apostles it was Jesus but not with water but Himself.

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