Water Baptism... ‎ Rite, Tradition Or Spiritual ‎Act?‎

Baptism or immersion in water, which we practice, ‎was not always the same way we know it today. It was ‎established and promoted by John the Baptist and known ‎as the baptism of John.‎ ‎ It was also known as baptism of ‎repentance,‎ ‎ later established as baptism in Jesus, which is ‎as we know it today.‎Baptism was not a strange element for those who ‎received it from John the Baptist. The reason why the ‎people did not hesitate to undergo its practice, apparently ‎new, it was because its basic principle is contained in the ‎Law of Moses.‎Water baptism is an extension of the Mosaic ‎practice of purification. It is evident in the description ‎that the author of the Gospel of John presents on the ‎raised conflict between the Jews and the disciples of John ‎the Bautista by precisely the increase in baptisms, activity ‎to which Jesus himself joined with his disciples:‎