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00:00Tanya Cushman Reviewer
00:30Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
00:49As it is written by Isaiah, the prophet, to prepare your way.
01:10Every ravine will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low.
01:19The crooked will become straight, and rough road smooth, and all flesh, all flesh will
01:36see the salvation of God!
01:49Come.
01:50In Mark's gospel, the first gospel to be written, the first character we meet is not Jesus,
02:09it's not Mary, it's not Joseph, it is John the Baptist.
02:14Come with me, and you will see.
02:20Come.
02:22Come all.
02:24Out in the wilderness, proclaiming a message of repentance.
02:34In the gospels, there's a picture of John that emerges.
02:36He wears camel's hair.
02:37He eats locusts and wild honey.
02:39He looks like the prophets of old.
02:43His hair is unkempt.
02:44He's dirty.
02:45He probably smells terrible.
02:48He is a wild man.
02:50And so, like, one would think that people would just ignore him or run away from him.
02:56And yet, you've got this group of people going down to the Jordan to listen to John preach.
03:03For your repentance, behold, the Lamb of God, to wash away your sins.
03:16You will see.
03:17You will see.
03:18You will see.
03:31I baptize you with water for repentance!
03:42God loves you, brother!
03:45John is immersing people in water in the Jordan called baptism for the forgiveness of their sins.
03:53When people emerge from the water, according to John, they are born again.
03:58This ritual of immersion gives John his nickname, that is, John the Baptizer.
04:06John is focusing on repentance because he thinks the deep problems they choose.
04:14Is their willingness to sin boldly and not repent.
04:20And he finds this to be a problem.
04:23The Jewish religious authorities come all the way from Jerusalem to the Jordan to hear him give a message there where he actually rails against them.
04:35Who are you?
04:36Have you come to be baptized?
04:40Wash away your sin?
04:42Who are you?
04:44Who are you?
04:52Let me guess.
04:56Elijah?
05:00Are you the prophet?
05:02Hmm?
05:06I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness.
05:11Make straight the way of the Lord.
05:14Hmm.
05:19Right.
05:24What should we do then?
05:28You brood of vipers.
05:31Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
05:35Huh?
05:36Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
05:41The axe is already at the roots of the trees.
05:45And every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
05:51Jon's message is one of repentance.
05:54Of turning.
05:55Of changing your ways.
05:57And it's a message so compelling and perhaps so threatening
05:59that the powers of the time, Vine and Jon, not just a prophet in the wilderness, but a threat to their power.
06:06For Jon, his anger, I think, is whelped up by the injustice that he sees in everyday life.
06:12Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.
06:22Jon is...
06:23Jon is preparing the way for a messiah.
06:27For the kingdom of heaven comes near.
06:33Don't end up like them.
06:35after me comes one who is more powerful than i
06:41whose sandals i am not worthy to carry
06:45john is preparing the way for a messiah for a deliverer for a liberator he sees what has gone
06:57awry and he's imagining a possibility of god's agent of god's prophet of god's messiah coming
07:03to set the world right
07:05somewhere between jesus at age 12 and when jesus begins his ministry roughly around age 30
07:25joseph seems to have died
07:27the image that we sometimes see in western art is jesus as this meek pious doe-eyed person that
07:39couldn't lift more than a little pebble we have to remember that this is someone who worked hard
07:43you know a physical laborer
07:45i think that most people would be surprised to think of jesus with short hair you often see jesus
07:52portrayed as a long-haired person but that's more of a medieval idea most jewish men at the time of
08:00jesus probably had short hair
08:02he kept us safe all these years
08:12he taught me a trade
08:18how to be a good man
08:23family is the central core of jewish life in the first century so when joseph dies he leaves the
08:43family without their central figure without their patriarch without their breadwinner
08:48my apprenticeship has come to an end
08:53it's time to build a different kind of house
08:57are you going well
09:01i've heard of a man who preaches by the river
09:06we need you
09:08they need me
09:12and you have james
09:15a lot of people are surprised to find out that jesus had a brother and that we know his name
09:23it's mentioned all over the new testament
09:25and that's because there's a kind of later catholic doctrine
09:28that says that after mary gave birth to jesus
09:32her virginity sealed back up and in fact she had no other children
09:36so catholics would probably say that these were stepbrothers and stepsisters
09:45not the natural children of mary protestants have no trouble with the idea that they were actual
09:51brothers and sisters
09:52we can imagine there might be a little bit of a frosty relationship between james and jesus
09:59because when jesus leaves the family to go and conduct his ministry
10:04james is left having to support his family
10:08we're doing the lord's work andrew
10:32and you can't do the lord's work without food
10:36according to the gospels
10:44one of john's followers is a man by the name of andrew
10:47he's going to play a central role in the movement of jesus of nazareth
10:52andrew i think without question is a spiritual seeker
10:58he's not happy with the state of his religion
11:02and he's looking for preachers who could help them find a better way to be faithful to god
11:09are you the messiah
11:13i am not the messiah
11:18but i have been sent ahead of him
11:22he will baptize you with the holy spirit and fire
11:30his fork in his hand
11:33and he will clear the threshing floor
11:36gathering his wheat into the barn
11:39and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire
11:43unlike many jews
11:47john is not expecting a messiah who will be a military leader like king david
11:52the greatest king in israel's history
11:54john's messiah will burn up everyone
11:57apart from those who have repented
11:59and will usher in a new era of god's rule here on earth
12:03the poor will no longer be poor
12:06the oppressed will no longer be oppressed
12:08this will be the kingdom of god
12:10right here
12:10right now
12:11will you baptize me
12:16will you baptize me
12:16will you baptize me
12:29Are you ready?
12:56Come on, dear.
12:56I baptize you with water for repentance.
13:24You have come to be baptized?
13:26I have come to see my cousin.
13:46There he is, boy.
13:49I've traveled a long way to find you, John.
13:51I've traveled a long way to find you.
13:57I've traveled a long way to find you.
13:59In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus and John are related to one another.
14:03In the other Gospels, it's not clear what their relationship is before they meet on the banks
14:07of the Jordan, but it seems evident that Jesus hears something in John's voice that he feels
14:12drawn to, that he feels compelled by.
14:21Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.
14:29The whole earth is full of his glory.
14:42You speak my words with such power.
14:44The Gospels make it seem like the time that John the Baptist and Jesus spent together was very short.
15:07But in historical reality, it's possible that they spent much more time together,
15:13learning from one another and becoming part of the same community.
15:17Many New Testament scholars believe that Jesus was, for a time, a member of John's circle,
15:27really actually a disciple of John.
15:32In this case, it looks like John the Baptist is the kind of teacher, even role model for Jesus
15:39as he thinks about his own ministry.
15:41I've dedicated my life to preaching the word of God.
15:50Preparing the ground for the one that follows me.
15:56The people.
15:59The people cry out for an end to their misery, the fall of their enemies.
16:05And the time of the one true Lord.
16:11It is a future I long to see.
16:22Jesus?
16:26What future do you see?
16:31You are the teacher.
16:32You are the teacher.
16:41I see a time when prophecies will come to pass.
16:48And God's fire wipes away the pain of his people like a sandstorm.
16:55The Jewish people are looking for a very strong Messiah who will lead them out of Roman occupation.
17:14John the Baptist expects the Messiah to be not only disruptive, but even violent.
17:20He is going to burn up those who are involved in the Roman occupation.
17:33And that includes the new Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate.
17:39At some point during his governorship, Pilate builds a aqueduct, bringing fresh water to the city of Jerusalem.
17:53Which is a great idea.
17:55There's only one problem.
17:56He decides that this extremely expensive project will be funded from the treasury of the Jerusalem temple.
18:03And this causes an outcry because those funds are sacred, right?
18:11It is their money.
18:12It's not the Roman Empire's money.
18:14And they don't want it used for a secular purpose like building an aqueduct.
18:18A man can live without many things.
18:42Wine, women, money even.
18:46But water, it's the blood of life.
18:51Think of an aqueduct as a heart pumping blood.
18:56Or in this case, water.
18:59The aqueduct flows.
19:02Your children drink fresh water.
19:04Your crops grow.
19:05But if it stops, you die.
19:12So everyone will benefit.
19:18And all we ask is that you contribute.
19:27How very predictable.
19:30Pilate sends a small group of soldiers, dressed in plain clothes, into the crowd, armed with clubs.
19:44Having people use clubs instead of swords is a way to inflict terror without causing an outright massacre.
19:52Surely the day is coming.
19:56It will burn like a furnace.
20:00All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble.
20:06And the day that is coming will set them on fire.
20:11Holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.
20:22John the Baptist is preparing the way for the Messiah, the Son of God, who just so happens to be, potentially, his cousin, Jesus.
20:36And in this moment, Jesus is potentially getting ready to launch into his own ministry.
20:42Here's the question, who is Jesus to John the Baptist, or more importantly, more intriguing is, who is John the Baptist to Jesus?
21:12The time has come.
21:42I should be baptized by you.
22:05Why are you coming to me?
22:06This is how it should be.
22:21If there is one event that we know definitively happened in Jesus' life, it's that John baptized Jesus.
22:30It's the one thing that every Jesus scholar agrees on.
22:36Does Jesus need to be baptized?
22:40Not really.
22:42He's the Son of God.
22:45The way I like to look at it is that Jesus cast himself with the rest of humanity.
22:50So inasmuch as others were getting baptized, Jesus decided, really in an act of humility, to get baptized by John.
22:59Are you ready?
23:00You are my son, the beloved.
23:25God, with you, I am well pleased.
23:32What did you say?
23:49Everything.
23:54Everything.
23:55I am.
23:56I am.
23:56I am.
23:57I am.
23:58I am.
23:58I am.