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Articles_of_he_Bishop_of_Uramiah, page : 358
If Jesus were in reality the person whom the Baptist foretold
as "more powerful" than himself, so much so that he was
"not worthy to kneel and unloose his shoes," and that "he
would baptize with the Spirit and fire," there would be no
necessity nor any sense in his being baptized by his inferior
in the river like an ordinary penitent Jew! The expression
of Jesus, "It behoves us to fulfill all the justice," is incompre-
hensible. Why and how "all the justice" would be
accomplished by them if Jesus were baptized? This expression
is utterly unintelligible. It is either an interpolation or a
clause deliberately mutilated. Here is another instance which
presents itself to be solved and interpreted by the Islamic
spirit. From a Muslim point of view the only sense in this
expression of Jesus would be that John, through the eye of
a Seer or "Sophi," perceived the prophetical character of the
as "more powerful" than himself, so much so that he was
"not worthy to kneel and unloose his shoes," and that "he
would baptize with the Spirit and fire," there would be no
necessity nor any sense in his being baptized by his inferior
in the river like an ordinary penitent Jew! The expression
of Jesus, "It behoves us to fulfill all the justice," is incompre-
hensible. Why and how "all the justice" would be
accomplished by them if Jesus were baptized? This expression
is utterly unintelligible. It is either an interpolation or a
clause deliberately mutilated. Here is another instance which
presents itself to be solved and interpreted by the Islamic
spirit. From a Muslim point of view the only sense in this
expression of Jesus would be that John, through the eye of
a Seer or "Sophi," perceived the prophetical character of the