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by the author of the Fourth Gospel that Prophet Jesus and his
disciples also used to baptize with water simultaneously with
John the Baptist is an abrogation de facto of the parenthe-
tical note that "Jesus did not baptize himself, but his
disciples only" (John iii. 23 and iv. 1, 2). But granting
that he himself did not baptize, the admission that his
disciples did, while yet initiates and unlearned, shows that
their baptism was of the same nature as that of John's.
Considering the fact that Jesus during the period of his
earthly mission administered that rite exactly as the Baptist
was doing at the streams or pools of water, and that he
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ordered his disciples to continue the same, it becomes as
evident and as clear as a barn door that he was not the
disciples also used to baptize with water simultaneously with
John the Baptist is an abrogation de facto of the parenthe-
tical note that "Jesus did not baptize himself, but his
disciples only" (John iii. 23 and iv. 1, 2). But granting
that he himself did not baptize, the admission that his
disciples did, while yet initiates and unlearned, shows that
their baptism was of the same nature as that of John's.
Considering the fact that Jesus during the period of his
earthly mission administered that rite exactly as the Baptist
was doing at the streams or pools of water, and that he
91
ordered his disciples to continue the same, it becomes as
evident and as clear as a barn door that he was not the