The prophetic heritage of promise is gathered up and bestowed upon this picture of the Baptist preparing the way for the more powerful one. The people were baptized then as an affirmation of the hope and active preparation for a new era of their history. Jesus was baptized as an expression of his embracing of that promise and of the mission that was his. Our baptism represents our enrolment in that heritage of promise. And the baptism of each new child expresses our bequest to the future.
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