Anf-03 vi.iii.xii Pg 8
John xiii. 9, 10.
which, of course, He would not have said at all to one not baptized;) even here we have a conspicuous8663 8663 Exerta. Comp. c. xviii. sub init.; ad Ux. ii. c. i. sub fin.
proof against those who, in order to destroy the sacrament of water, deprive the apostles even of John’s baptism. Can it seem credible that “the way of the Lord,” that is, the baptism of John, had not then been “prepared” in those persons who were being destined to open the way of the Lord throughout the whole world? The Lord Himself, though no “repentance” was due from Him, was baptized: was baptism not necessary for sinners? As for the fact, then, that “others were not baptized”—they, however, were not companions of Christ, but enemies of the faith, doctors of the law and Pharisees. From which fact is gathered an additional suggestion, that, since the opposers of the Lord refused to be baptized, they who followed the Lord were baptized, and were not like-minded with their own rivals: especially when, if there were any one to whom they clave, the Lord had exalted John above him (by the testimony) saying, “Among them who are born of women there is none greater than John the Baptist.”8664 8664
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.xxiii Pg 77.1, Lifetimes x.x Pg 35.1, Lifetimes x.x Pg 39.1, Lifetimes x.x Pg 43.1, Temple xxi Pg 52.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (9) - Ps 26:6; 51:2,7 Jer 4:14 Mt 27:24 Heb 10:22 1Pe 3:21
