John the Baptist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John the Baptist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "All four canonical gospels relate John's preaching and baptism in the River Jordan. Most notably he is the one who recognizes Jesus as the Messiah and baptizes him. The baptism marks the beginning of Jesus' ministry. The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and (most clearly) Luke relate that Jesus came from Galilee to John and was baptized by him, whereupon the Spirit descended upon Jesus and a voice from Heaven told him he was God's Son. The Gospel of John does not record John's baptizing Jesus, but John introduces Jesus to his disciples as the 'Lamb of God' (John 1:29-36[29]).
Considered by Christians to be without sin, Jesus nevertheless received John's baptism, which was for the repentance of sins (Mark 1:4[30]). This is addressed in the Gospel of Matthew's account, which portrays John's refusal to baptize Jesus, saying, 'I need to be baptized by you.' Jesus persuades John to baptize him nonetheless (Matthew 3:13-15[31]).

John baptizing Christ, by Guido ReniThe Gospel of John reports that Jesus' disciples were baptizing and that a debate broke out between some of the disciples of John and another Jew about purification. In this debate John argued that Jesus 'must become greater,' while he (John) 'must become less' (John 3:22-36[32]). The Gospel of John then points out that Jesus' disciples were baptizing more people than John (John 4:2[33]). Later, the Gospel relates that Jesus regarded John as 'a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light' (John 5:35[34]). The book of Acts portrays the disciples of John as eventually merging into the followers of Jesus (Acts 18:24-19:6[35]), a development not reported by the Gospels except for the early case of Andrew, Simon Peter's brother (John 1:35-42[36])."


I view Hillary transferring her delegates over to Obama after the primaries as similar to disciples of John eventually merging into the followers of Jesus....

except for the Hillary Girls!