Matthew 3:13

Then cometh Jesus … to be baptized of him Jesus who is the pattern of the New life submits to the baptism which is a symbol of the New life (Metanoia). He who has power to forgive sins seems to seek through baptism forgiveness of sins. But in truth by submitting to baptism Jesus shows the true efficacy of the rite. He who is most truly man declares what man may become through baptism clothed and endued with the Holy Spirit, and touched by the fire of zeal and purity.

There is no hint in the gospel narrative of that beautiful companionship and intercourse in childhood between Jesus and the Baptist with which Art has familiarized us. See John 1:31, a passage which tends to an opposite conclusion.

to Jordan Probably at "Ænon near to Salim" (John 3:23), a day's journey from Nazareth, "close to the passage of the Jordan near Succoth and far away from that near Jericho." Sinai and Palestine, p. 311.