Were the Eleven Disciples of Jesus Baptised Again?

Until the time of John the Baptist baptism was not required of any believer. The baptism of Israel into Moses—in the cloud and in the sea—was not an individual requirement for salvation, but merely a figure whereby the people (as a nation) were segregated from others, and connected with God.

From such time the people were subjected to God’s laws which were designed to save (give eternal life) if, and only if, they were rigidly and unbrokenly kept (Ezekiel 20:11; Romans 7:10). They were never so kept, except by the One and only One who obtained that life accordingly, being “obedient unto death.” Yet many who have been under those laws will obtain that life—not by the Law itself, but” by the righteousness of faith,” (Romans 3:20 and 4:13-16). For they know that their “redeemer liveth.”

Israel had so far degraded themselves that they had almost “all gone out of the way” till, in the days of John, they were specially visited by one who “came unto his own” and before whom John was sent as a herald to” prepare the way/’ This preparation involved the turning of Israel from obstinate unbelief to a readiness to accept the fulfilling of Scripture regarding Jesus as the Messiah and Redeemer.

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Author: James B. Watson

Keywords: Rebaptism, Rebaptized, Baptized again, Baptized a second time, Reimmersion, Disciples rebaptized, Disciples baptized, John's baptism, Baptism, Baptized

Bible reference(s): Mat 28:19, Luke 22:32, John 1:31, John 3:23, Acts 19:1-5, 1 Pet. 3:21

Source: “Were the Eleven Disciples of Jesus Baptised again after the Resurrection of their Lord?,” The Testimony, Vol. 22, No. 256, April 1952, pp. 106-7.

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