I was reading in Mark this a.m. It has always interested me that Jesus needed to be baptized . The Jewish people had a similiar one-time washing of Gentile proselytes. This rite symbolized their embracing of true faith. This served as an admission that they needed to come to God through repentance and faith. I get that Jesus had no reason to repent for any sin that He himself committed, yet His submission to baptism one, confirmed the message that John the Baptist came preaching, but two, visibly demonstates His willingness to become sin for us----
'For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.' (2 Corinthians 5:21)
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