Friends, welcome back to this formed book study on Father Isaac Morales' new book,

The Bible and Baptism, The Fountain of Salvation.

Father, thank you for being back here with us.

Thank you for having me.

For a third episode.

In the previous one,

for those of you who may not have seen it, well, actually hit pause and go back and watch it,

it was a lot of fun. We kind of got into the Old Testament and how much we can glean about

the mystery of baptism from close reading of the Old Testament.

And in this third episode, I want to forge ahead, just in kind of the same path that

your book takes and get into the New Testament.

Now, when we think about the New Testament and baptism, maybe the first person we think of is John the Baptist. This is the first place that we have

a kind of explicit reference to this sort of ritual baptism. Even though, you know, we have these

ritual washings in the Old Testament. There seems to be something new going on with John the Baptist.

I do feel like I should mention,

I've always had a special affinity for John the Baptist.

Well, actually, for all kinds of good and serious reasons,

but also because I grew up Baptist.

And so I used to be John the Baptist myself.

I don't approve of that.

Forgive me, Father.

We can talk afterwards.

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