Yes Jesus was baptized by his cousin John the baptist, he was then lead into the wilderness by the spirit for 40 days.This was before he started his earthly mission.
The only way to get to heaven is to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior by REPENTING of your sins.
jesus as healer and jesus as forgiver
People that needed repentance & salvation like us all.
To call sinners to repentance and save them from eternal damnation in hell.I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." [Luke 5:32]
It was a symbolic gesture of repentance. Now that we have Jesus we need not to tear our garment anymore, but our heart unto him. It also was an out was an outward gesture to show grief and/or "Holy" anger.
In Jesus day baptism was a baptism of repentance signifying a turning away from a life contrary to God's ways and a turning to God. For example the baptism offered by John the Baptist: Mark 1:4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
The word repentance is mentioned 24 times in the new testament, in the New King James Version of the Bible. It will be a different number of times in other versions of the Bible. A core theme of the message of Jesus and the cross. Repentance means to turn from and go a different direction.
No. John the baptist was Jesus' cousin but he was never one of Jesus' disciples. John continued calling people to repentance until his imprisonment and death which are early on in the gospel accounts.
Jesus and John the Baptist were both important figures in the New Testament who preached about repentance and the coming of the Kingdom of God. John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus by baptizing people and calling them to repentance, while Jesus continued this message and also taught about love, forgiveness, and salvation. They were related in their roles as prophets and messengers of God, but Jesus was seen as the Messiah and the Son of God, while John the Baptist was a precursor to his ministry.
If you believe that Jesus is God - Jesus must have put the star to show where he was born! If you believe that Jesus is a Prophet - then God must have put the star to show where Jesus was born.
you show that you have accepted JESUS by following HIM....................
John the Baptist was a prophet who baptized Jesus and recognized him as the Messiah. He played a significant role in preparing the way for Jesus' ministry by preaching about repentance and paving the path for Jesus' public ministry.