“Come, let us cross over ... the crossings were over or through water, which leads naturally to an association of those moments with the rite of Christian baptism. It is common to confuse ...

The Gospels show baptism occurring on the edge of wilderness. People went out from populated places to the ... In water's flow, we may also be reminded that water flows with a power of its own and ...

And from there, Jesus said go out to all the world." Different denominations have different beliefs about the role baptism plays ... is welcome to come to the water and be baptized for the first ...

That is a vision of baptism, for out of the new Temple, which is Jesus himself, flows water that brings life ... He is not far away. He has come to the lowest place, the deadest place, the ...