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00:03In addition to preaching conversion and baptism,
00:31John had received another mission from God,
00:35the one about announcing the imminent arrival of someone more powerful than him,
00:40whose dignity was so great that he did not consider himself worthy to untie the strap of his sandals.
00:49This statement is very telling.
00:52If we take into account that many of the roads in the towns of Judea and Galilee
00:58These were roads that easily turned into mud due to the rains.
01:04or they covered people who made long journeys on foot in dust and dirt,
01:10with sandals that did not prevent people's feet from getting dirty.
01:16It looked so bad that someone would untie people's sandal straps
01:21that this task was entrusted to slaves,
01:26who took off his master's sandals,
01:29She cleaned his feet and finally washed them so that he would be comfortable and clean in his home.
01:36The Baptist considers himself less than a slave when he says
01:41that not even something as vile as taking off his lord's shoes and washing his feet
01:47It would be appropriate for him to be in the presence of the one before whom he would be sent by God.
01:54Here we can also make a section and see why in the Gospel of Saint John
01:59Peter is completely opposed to accepting that Jesus washes their feet during the last supper.
02:06Important to the rite that John performed was not only the act of pouring water on those being baptized
02:15as a tangible sign of spiritual purification,
02:18but he submerged them in the Jordan River to more effectively accomplish his task.
02:26Jews lived constantly worried about the impurities that contact with strangers could cause them.
02:36With non-Jewish or uncircumcised people or with pagans.
02:41Therefore, one of their most frequent actions was the purification rites through washing with water.
02:50Likewise, the Essenes were accustomed to constantly purifying themselves to avoid any impurity.
02:57So both Jews and Essenes constantly purified themselves with water by washing their bodies personally.
03:07But what is striking about Juan is that he, and he alone, performs the ritual of immersing people in the waters of the Jordan.
03:16In addition, the ritual could only be performed once,
03:21since the Baptist demanded a total and definitive change of life, a conversion to God.
03:29But brothers, while John baptizes with water,
03:32the most powerful one, the one who comes after the Baptist,
03:37He will pour out the Holy Spirit on those who believe in him and follow him.
03:41Jesus, from the very Spirit of God,
03:46which will bring about a deeper purification.
03:51While water washes away bodily impurities externally,
03:56The Spirit given by Jesus performs wonderful works in the deepest part of the being.
04:05Jesus, always attentive and docile to the will of his Father,
04:10He knew he had to meet John and be baptized by him.
04:16He recognized an important element of God's plan
04:19as preparation for the final stage of ultimate salvation
04:24And it is then that Jesus is baptized by John.
04:29It must be clarified that Jesus was exempt from all sin
04:33and therefore did not need to undergo a baptism of conversion
04:39for the forgiveness of sins,
04:41But he chose to submit himself humbly in union and communion with all the people
04:47and put themselves in the place of their brothers,
04:51with whom he shared the same human nature
04:55and those whom he had come to save.
04:58Jesus, innocent, became sin for us.
05:01and enters the water of the Jordan.
05:04That is why Saint Paul affirms that he who has not committed sin,
05:09God made him sin for us.
05:11so that we might come to do God's justice in him.
05:15Upon completing his baptism,
05:19Marcos highlights three very important elements.
05:22These are three eschatological signs.
05:25First, Jesus came up out of the water.
05:28Saint Mark distinguishes two scenes,
05:31first, water baptism
05:32and second, baptism in the spirit
05:36that Jesus receives from God when he comes out of the river.
05:40In this sense,
05:42Juan no longer has any influence.
05:44in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that Jesus received.
05:48Second, the double vision.
05:51First, Jesus saw the heavens torn open.
05:55It is, therefore, a personal experience
05:58and not just one sign,
06:00The tearing of the heavens is a biblical image,
06:04It is a communication between heaven and earth
06:07and a definitive revelation of God.
06:10In this case, Jesus will begin a new stage.
06:15of God's communication with men.
06:19Second, it is the spirit that in the form of a dove
06:23descended upon him
06:25And it is Isaiah again who speaks on this point.
06:29As the messiah, Jesus will be filled with the power and strength of the Divine Spirit.
06:45to establish the reign and power of God on earth.
06:50As a prophet, he will have the required wisdom and knowledge.
06:55to dictate the new law to the poor, needy, and captive
07:00and as a suffering servant.
07:04He will bear the sin and iniquities of the people on his shoulders.
07:08Furthermore, the spirit in the form of a dove
07:13It has a lot to do with the image of the spirit
07:16that fluttered over the waters in the first creation
07:20and with the dove that foretells the renewal of the world after the flood,
07:27which occurs three times at seven-day intervals
07:31to symbolize the renewal of God's covenant with Noah
07:36and the promise of a world in perpetual friendship with God.
07:41Jesus, therefore, brings to full realization a new creation,
07:46the renewal of the alliance
07:48and the perpetual friendship between the people and God.
07:53And third, the voice of heaven.
07:56This meant a communication from God
07:59Moreover, the voice that speaks to Jesus comes from heaven
08:04and declares that Jesus is the Son especially loved and cared for by God.
08:10Now we see how Jesus' mission
08:13It is to establish the kingdom of God in the world
08:17casting out Satan
08:19and proclaiming and teaching with power
08:22the good news that God has entrusted to him.
08:25Once baptized, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the desert
08:31to be tempted
08:32And it is here that Jesus has a great deal of similarity with Moses and Elijah,
08:39the prophets led by God into the desert
08:41where they stay for forty days
08:44and at the end of which God reveals himself to them
08:48clearly and surprisingly.
08:50These forty days also bring to mind the march of Israel.
08:54through the desert
08:55where the people constantly tempted God
08:59and where the people of Israel succumbed to temptation.
09:04Saint Mark, therefore, from the very first moment
09:07presents Jesus as the Messiah
09:09who is led by the Spirit
09:12and that he is victorious over Satan
09:14and that he comes to inaugurate the kingdom of God.
09:17Mark informs us that Jesus left the Jordan region
09:22and returns to Galilee
09:24where he began his preaching by saying
09:27that the time has come
09:29The kingdom of God is near
09:32Repent and believe in the Gospel.
09:36After the inaugural shout
09:38the evangelist places Jesus
09:41skirting the Sea of Galilee
09:43to call the first four disciples.
09:46Marcos introduces us
09:48the story of two pairs of brothers
09:50who were fishermen
09:52and invites them to follow him.
09:53Thank you!
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