When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (2) (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), (3) He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
I pause at these verses, just to remark what appears to me highly proper to be noticed. Jesus himself baptized not. Was it not, (I ask the question, but do not decide), because that this was the peculiar office of God the Holy Ghost? Had Christ baptized, surely it would not have been (as all his servants are confined to) water baptism only. The question is of moment. I leave it with the Reader.