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The Sea Purification Ritual in Leviticus
nowhere in the Hebrew Bible are you told to do a ritual like this it makes sense with all those themes passing through the sea purification rituals. There's pools of baptism water all over Jerusalem to help people do a washing before they go up to the temple but then also in other places okay in towns where maybe before beginning a time of prayer or before going to synagogue and that kind of thing. John is being portrayed as the voice crying out in the wilderness that's preparing the way for Yahweh to show up. Jesus identifies himself with this renewed and washed covenant ready Israel and immediately as he rose up from the water he saw the skies being torn open and the spirit coming down as a