![]() ![]() ![]() The swimming-baths of Bethesda and Siloam (see Notes on John 5:7 John 9:7), or the so-called Fountain of the Virgin, near the Temple enclosure, or the bathing-places within the Tower of Antony (Jos. (2) The symbolic meaning of the act required immersion in order that it might be clearly manifested, and Romans 6:4, and 1Peter 3:21, seem almost of necessity to imply the more complete mode. On the other hand, (1) immersion had clearly been practised by John, and was involved in the original meaning of the word, and it is not likely that the rite should have been curtailed of its full proportions at the very outset. Three thousand souls.-The largeness of the number has been urged as rendering it probable that the baptism was by affusion, not immersion. (See Notes on Matthew 3:5 Matthew 11:12.) ![]() Not four years had passed since there had been a like eagerness to rush to the baptism of John. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(41) They that gladly received his word were baptized.-This was, we must remember, no new emotion. ![]()
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