John 1 doesn’t indicate that Jesus is baptized, then goes into His public ministry. What was Jesus doing the day after He was baptized? He was in the wilderness. Before the events of Mark 1:14 take place, John verifies Jesus and says “Behold, the Lamb of God,” as John 1 says. He’s come out of the wilderness temptations and the 40 days of testing, so John verifies the baptism from days earlier before he (John the Baptist) is arrested and Jesus heads into Galilee. So John is validating who Jesus is, just at the moment when He is gathering disciples and starting His public ministry. At this point, it appears in John’s Gospel that John himself is not yet imprisoned but Jesus has emerged from His baptism - which is why John talks about Jesus and the Spirit descending on Him in past tense (John 1:32-33). In Mark 1, we see that, after Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness being tempted by the Devil, that Jesus goes to Galilee but then John is imprisoned. The question comes down to, how do we reconcile these accounts? Well, John testifies to who Jesus is, though he doesn’t baptize Jesus in John 1 but does so in Mark 1. What do we see in John’s Gospel? We don’t see Jesus being driven into the wilderness, but what we do see is that John testifies to who He is and Jesus then begins to gather His disciples for public ministry. 33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.” (John 1:29-34) Now, let’s look at the Gospel of John on the matter.Ģ9 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ 31 I did not know Him but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water.”ģ2 And John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. (Mark 1:9-13)Īs can be seen from the excerpt of Mark 1 above, Jesus was baptized of John, then “the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness” (v.12). 13 And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts and the angels ministered to Him.
11 Then a voice came from heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”ġ2 Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. 10 And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove. Jesus’ Baptism in the Gospel of Mark and Gospel of John Image Credit: Missio Allianceĩ It came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Between the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John, Ehrman appears to claim that these two Gospels are giving two different accounts of Jesus’ baptism and the events following.īefore getting into how we are to reconcile these two accounts, let’s look at the passages first. īart Ehrman’s quote above says that in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the wilderness immediately after His baptism, whereas in John, we don’t read of the specific baptism event - only John’s validation of Jesus and his recalling of Jesus’ baptism. So where was Jesus the next day? It depends on which Gospel you read. Jesus then starts gathering his disciples around him (1:35-52) and launches into his public ministry by performing his miracle of turning water into wine (2:1-11).
The day after John the Baptist has borne witness to the Spirit descending on Jesus as a dove at baptism (John 1:29-34), he sees Jesus again and declares him to be the Lamb of God (John is explicit, stating that this occurred “the next day”).
What about John? In John there is no account of Jesus being tempted by the Devil in the wilderness. Mark especially is quite clear about the matter, for he states, after telling of the baptism, that Jesus left “immediately” for the wilderness. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke - the so-called Synoptic Gospels - Jesus, after his baptism, goes off into the wilderness where he will be tempted by the Devil. Where Was Jesus the Day After He Was Baptized?
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