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11 aI indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. bHe will baptize you with the Holy Spirit1 and fire.  
12 aHis winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will bburn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”  

John Baptizes Jesus

13 aThen Jesus came bfrom Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.  
14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”
15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.
16 aWhen He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and1 He saw bthe Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.  
17 aAnd suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, b“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” 
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Matthew 3:13-17

Jesus is the epitome of the righteous example in all things. He set us an example to follow with regard to the process of our conversion as well. Though He committed no sins to be remitted, He was baptized, setting the example for us. Matthew 3:13-17 describes the account of His baptism by John the Baptizer.

In being baptized, Jesus was immersed in water (not sprinkled or poured upon). We know from the Gospel account that,

So, He came up out of the water because He was under the water, so that His sins would be symbolically washed away, not His sins but our sins because He was only symbolically doing it to show us an example. He had no sin to be washed away.

Not only did Jesus set the example by personally being baptized, He also baptized more disciples than John the Baptist did.

The purpose of Jesus' baptism was to set us an example. He was put down into the water, for He went up out of the water. Both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water. There was no reason for Philip to go actually into the water, except for the reason there was no other way he could plunge the eunuch into the river. "They came up out of the water together" is the way that it is worded.

Excerpted from The Wonderful Ordinance of Water Baptism

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Basic Doctrines: Water Baptism  

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