8 This washing we establish as a rite—baptism rite we call it now, and so it shall be called.
9 Your work, prophetic harbinger, is to prepare the way, and to reveal the hidden things.
10 The multitudes are ready for the words of life, and I have come to be made known by you to all the world, as prophet of the Triune God, and as the chosen one to manifest the Christ to men.
11 Then John led Jesus down into the river at the ford and he baptized him in the sacred name of him who sent him forth to manifest the Christ to men.
12 And as they came out of the stream, the Holy Breath, in form of dove, came down and sat on Jesus’ head.
13 A voice from heaven said, This is the well-beloved son of God, the Christ, the love of God made manifest.
14 John heard the voice, and understood the message of the voice.
15 Now Jesus went his way, and John preached to the multitude.
16 As many as confessed their sins, and turned from evil ways to ways of right, the harbinger baptized, symbolic of the blotting out of sins by righteousness.