Friends, welcome back to this formed book study that we're doing here with Father Isaac Morales

on his brand new book from Baker Academic, The Bible and Baptism, The Fountain of Salvation.

Father, thank you for being back here with us.

Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.

The discussion so far has been very rich. After our introduction, we got into the Old Testament,

and then the last episode got into the Gospels and looked at the baptism of John the plunger.

Yes. As Monsignor, John Meyer, like to say.

And then into Jesus' own baptism, which is so profound, some of the things that Father

showed us in there and is in many ways unique, right?

Jesus submitting to the baptism of John, but having the heavens torn open,

having the Holy Spirit descend upon him, identifying as the Messiah. We hear the voice of the

father, calling him his beloved son. And then we looked forward to almost the end of Mark,

to the crucifixion, and saw how Mark sort of presents these scenes as things we're supposed to see in relationship to each other.

So I thought maybe in this episode, Father, we could take the next step and consider our own baptism, Christian baptism, which Jesus actually commands the disciples to perform when he gives them the great commission.

So I thought maybe a good place to start would be the very end of Matthews Gospel.

And I'll just read the last few verses.

Well, let's say the last five verses.

So this is Matthew chapter 28 starting in verse 16 for anyone who wants to get their Bibles out,

which we always encourage.

Now the 11 disciples, because of course Judas was gone by this point, went to Galilee,

to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.

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