But Jesus said unto them,
You know not what you ask: can you drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
For when we immerse our heads in the water, the old humanity is buried as in a tomb below, and wholly sunk forever. Then as we raise them again, the new humanity rises in its place. As it is easy for us to dip and to lift our heads again, so it is easy for God to bury the old humanity, and to lift up and display the new. And this is done three times, that you may learn that the power of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost fulfills all this.
