JESUS, BEING HOLY, WHY WAS HE BAPTISED?

 You might have asked yourself why was Jesus baptized given that He was and is forever holy? The following excerpt from the sermon INFLUENCE (63-0803E) by brother Branham may open up your eyes.

"Now here is a question was asked me the other day. It might come  up in your mind. When Jesus walked into the water, and John said, “I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou to me?”

Now, an old Baptist brother of mine, that Doctor Roy Davis, used to tell me. He laid his hands on me when he ordained me in the Missionary Baptist church. He said, “Billy, what happened...” I asked him about that. He said, “Here is what happened. You see, John had never been baptized, hisself, so Jesus baptized John. And then John turned around and returns, baptized Jesus, because Jesus couldn’t baptize John before He was baptized.” Well, I thought that sounded alright.
 
But one day, about two years ago, out in the woods where I was sitting, the Holy Spirit came down, the Light, and then I saw what it was, when He revealed it.

Now here is what it is. See, there was the two most important people on the earth: there was John the prophet; there was Jesus the Messiah. And they, two, of the men that had the Message of the day, met face to face in water, when their eyes caught one another. And John, in humility, did say, “I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou unto me?”

Jesus said, “Suffer that to be so.” That is right. “But thus it behooveth us, or it is becoming to us...” Behooveth means “becoming.” “It is becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness.” Why? Jesus being God; John being the prophet. Quickly Jesus knowed when He said that, John being a prophet to who the Word come to, knowed he would understand it. Because, the sacrifice, according to the law, had to be washed before it was presented. And Jesus had to be baptized before presented. He said, “Suffer it to be so now. That’s right. For thus it is behooving us, becoming to us, to fulfill all righteousness.”