Question: Who baptized John the Baptist?
Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!
John the Baptist was a forerunner and have come from God (Luke 1:17; John 3:28). He needs no baptism to be introduced, as He is the forerunner sent by God Himself in the spirit capacity of Elijah to bring repentance to Israel, and thus turn them towards the coming Messiah who is coming for them from heaven. Hallelujah!
The Pharisees when they saw John calling people for repentance, they did not question his authority because they feared the people who accepted him (Matt 21:25, 26), the same happened when they faced Jesus, they questioned his authority, and Jesus by asking questions denied to answer their questions of unbelief (Matt 21:23, 27).
John was the Greatest of all Old Testament prophets, because He was someone chosen by God to be filled with the Spirit right from the womb (Luke 1:15, 16-17; 41, 44). Even Jesus spoke about the specialty of his call as a forerunner and Spirit filled man as something "greater than all the prophets" of the Old Testament (Matt 11:9-10, 11-12, 14). John’s ministry was in the spirit capacity of Elijah to turn the hearts of the children of Israel towards the Messiah, and also turn the heart of the fathers in heaven towards the children of Israel in the Messiah's first coming as predicted in Isaiah 40:3 and Malachi 3:1 (Matt 17:3; John 8:56).
John the Baptist was just a man, but the greatest of all OT prophets born of women, therefore he needs no identificational baptism. But as for Jesus who was God became a human and therefore taking on the sins of human kind he needed identificational baptism from John the Baptist for the nation of Israel to recognize their Messiah (Matt 3:13-14, 15). This baptism also revealed to all, that He was God's beloved Son in whom God was well pleased with his life on earth (Matt 3:16, 17). Thus the sinless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world was also identified by John the Baptist and the Jews who were witnessing around him (John 1:36). In other words, for the baptism of John for Jesus, even the Father in heaven and Holy Spirit themselves were waiting for it to take place, so that the nation of Israel could receive the Messiah, the Son of God and the Messiah of the world who has been sent from heaven for them to be saved from sin, and start to live a new life for the Glory of God in the Kingdom of God!
Praise the LORD Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour!
Much Blessings.....
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