Initially it seems that it was adults who believed in Jesus who were baptised, but over time baptising infants began. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands.

Baptism has been a symbolic way of joining the Church from the very start of Christianity. It actually predates Christianity; John the Baptist baptized Jews before Jesus came on the scene, and so ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...