Mark 1:9-11 : The day of decision

“To every man there openeth
A way and ways and a way;
The high soul treads the high way,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.”
- John Oxenham
(if one doesn’t take a decision when one ought to take , it could bring the person to ruins.)

Baptism of Jesus (Denaha perunal)

John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. Why did Jesus come to john to get baptized?
Not much for purification (since God incarnate cannot be anything but pure) , but for other reasons.
For Jesus baptism was
1) the moment of decision
2) the moment of identification
3) the moment of approval
4) the moment of equipment

For 30 years he had stayed in Nazareth and might have been conscious that he might have to at some point of time go and reach out to people. He might have seen emergence of John as a sign. Then he took the decision to go to Jordan.

Jesus identified himself with the movement to bring back people to the ways of God.

It was a moment when God himself approved of Jesus’ decision. (A voice from the heaven said “Thou art my beloved Son”).

It was a moment when Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus. He was equipped to the arduous task that he was going to perform .