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where he used to baptize the penitent sinners who confessed
their sins to him. While Matthew knows nothing of his re-
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lationship with Jesus, or does not care to report it, Luke,
who wrote his Gospel, not from a revelation, but from the
works of the disciples of the Master, records the homage
rendered by John to Jesus when both in the wombs of their
mothers (Luke i. 39-46). He baptizes Jesus in the waters
of the River Jordan like everybody else, and is reported to
have said that he (John) was "not worthy to bow down to
untie the laces of the shoes" (Mark i. 7) of Jesus, and ac-
cording to the Fourth Gospel he (John) exclaimed that Jesus
was "the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world"
(John i. 29). That he knew Jesus and recognized him to be
the Christ is quite evident. Yet when he was imprisoned he
their sins to him. While Matthew knows nothing of his re-
51
lationship with Jesus, or does not care to report it, Luke,
who wrote his Gospel, not from a revelation, but from the
works of the disciples of the Master, records the homage
rendered by John to Jesus when both in the wombs of their
mothers (Luke i. 39-46). He baptizes Jesus in the waters
of the River Jordan like everybody else, and is reported to
have said that he (John) was "not worthy to bow down to
untie the laces of the shoes" (Mark i. 7) of Jesus, and ac-
cording to the Fourth Gospel he (John) exclaimed that Jesus
was "the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world"
(John i. 29). That he knew Jesus and recognized him to be
the Christ is quite evident. Yet when he was imprisoned he