Why was Jesus, a Jew, baptised by John the Baptist?

Question

Jews are not baptised.

You all seem to say that Baptism was a cleansing of sins, why would our savior need a baptism?

Answer 1

Jesus was baptized because He had to fulfill the legal requirements for entering into the priesthood. He was priest after the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:4; Heb. 5:8-10; 6:20). Priests offered sacrifice to God on behalf of the people. Jesus became a sacrifice for our sin (1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21) in His role as priest.
To be consecrated as a priest, He had to be:
- washed with water (Lev. 8:6; Exodus 29:4, Matt. 3:16).
- Anointed with oil (Lev. 8:12; Exodus 29:7; Matt. 3:16).
Both of these were bestowed upon Jesus at His baptism.
Additionally, He may have needed to be 30 years old - (Num. 4:3)

Oil is a type of the Holy Spirit: "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth...As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit -- just as it has taught you, remain in him," (1 John 2:20,27).
The Holy Spirit descended from heaven as a dove and rested upon Jesus (Matt. 3:16).

Answer 2

Jesus first of all, was not a Jew. He was a Judean. Both Jesus and John were of the House of Israel. The term Jew was not a word until the 18th century. The people who are nominated Jews, and account for over 75% of the Western "Jews" today, are Khazars who over a thousand years converted to Judaism for political reasons.
Jesus was baptized by John because John already was legitimized by his followers, and by him baptising Jesus, legitimized the ministry of Jesus.

Answer 3

Well they were both Jews. They were cousins in fact. John the Baptist was sent purposefully before Jesus to make the way "known". To let others know who Jesus was. God selected John to baptize Jesus. Read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament of the Bible.

BTW, Jews who accepts Jesus as the Messiah are baptized.

Answer 4

John the Baptist grow to be a Jew as properly. you won't be able to be a Jew and a Christian. All varieties of modern Judaism reject the thought Jesus grow to be the Messiah. Christianity is predicated on the thought Jesus grow to be the Messiah. you're able to be a Jew who switched over to Christianity and nonetheless follows each and all of the Jewish regulation and customs (and that's what Jesus and Paul says Jewish converts could desire to do), yet as quickly as you have self assurance that Jesus grow to be the Messiah you're no longer any greater standard as a Jew by skill of the Jewish community.

Answer 5

There is lots of evidence for ritual bathing and baptism-like practices among Jewish sects, including the essenes, from which many scholars have hypothesized John the Baptist came.

It's important not to put our Christian "baggage" on these characters. Of course, modern Jews are nto baptized; likewise, does it make sense for Jesus to be baptized for the reasons we are baptized (Remission of sin, confession fo Jesus as lord, becoming a member of the church)?

Answer 6

There were many different `Jewish` sects, dozens of them. Do not confuse today's(more or less) unified Judaic faith, with the era of Jesus and JtB. Jesus subscribed to the same messianic sectarian practises as JtB, and the two were most likely Nazorites or Nazoreans. JtB, if he had not lost his head would have figured more prominently in the religion, that eventually became Christianity.The ritual cleansing of early Judaism, becomes today`s baptism.

Answer 7

John the baptist began baptizing people on the banks of the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance and the remission of sins. "John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins." (KJV Mark 1:4) John said: 'I indeed have baptized you with water: but he [Jesus] shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.' (KJV, Mark 1:8)

Jews are not baptised, but Jesus was baptised as an example to his followers, and to make the waters of the Earth holy, so that we (Christians) may be baptised in them. "And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan." (KJV, Mark 1:9)

Many people draw a comparison between Christian baptism and the Jewish ritual of Mikvah, a Jewish ritual purification.

Answer 8

Baptism as a symbolic act of cleansing existed BC amoung the Jews and others.

Answer 9

Jew is the people that are out of the tribe of Judah, which is one of the tribes of the children of Israel. Jesus came to his own (Israel) Jews, which John the Baptist was also a Jew or Israelite. And Jesus had to be baptized by a Jew. John is out of the tribe of Benjamin.

Answer 10

It was a baptism of repentance that John was doing to prepare the way for Christ, Christ was baptised as a symbolic ceremonial washing that the great high priest did before he was annointed, not for repentence of sins.