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Joshua 3–4: On Israel’s “Monumental” Second Exodus into the Promised Land (Bible Talk, Ep. 65)

Bible Talk — A podcast by 9Marks & Southern Seminary

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The Passover Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River

Many of these flood stories are described as baptisms. Peter describes or likens Noah's flood to a baptism. Paul talks about Israel walking through the Red Sea being as them being baptized into Moses. So I think we could say with the crossing of the Jordan, this is a type of baptism that Israel perhaps here is being baptized into Joshua. This isn't the only baptism that we see in the Jordan River.

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