WHY WAS JESUS BAPTIZED? (Part-1)
Dear brothers and sisters, we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord this Sunday. The Christmas
season ends with this feast and we begin the ordinary time from Monday. Someone had asked me ‘why
was Jesus baptized?’ I gave a simple answer that He was baptized not because He needed it but because
we do. I would like to explain this in a more detailed way. John the Baptist was a mighty prophet and his
message was simple, “Repent. Prepare the way of the Lord.” Scripture says that great masses of people
from all of Judea came to him. They came to receive his baptism of repentance. They came to publicly say,
“We are sinners. We have offended God!” But then, something very odd happened. Jesus came from Galilea, and asked John to baptize him as well. Jesus was, is, and always will be God. He is perfect. Jesus has
no need of John’s baptism. (To be continued) Father Maria Joseph Kodigant