“He Should Baptize the Messiah with Water”

Alan C. Miner

[See the commentary on 2 Nephi 9:23]

1 Nephi 10:9 He [John the Baptist] shall baptize the Messiah with water ([Illustration]): Christ's Baptism. As Lehi prophesied, the Messiah (Jesus) would be baptized by a prophet (John the Baptist) "who should come before the Messiah, to prepare the way of the Lord." Artist: Robert T. Barrett. [Thomas R. Valletta ed., The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families, 1999, p. 26]

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