The baptism of Jesus: the scatological sense of the Kingdom of God

Abstract

In his public life Jesus never baptized anyone. But his disciples rite resume almost immediately after the resurrection. The first communities were not only driven by the story of Jesus, but by practical experience of Him the Kingdom announced by Jesus. The baptism is a sign of His approval on the next message of the coming of the Kingdom of God. The good news is the hope of the world oppressed and hopeless. It appears not as a distant horizon, or spiritual or outside history. The hope of Jesus is the gift that resonates and asks that gift. It is an active hope, dynamic; full of grace and presence of God who wants a change in the world and shows the man, through Jesus, that change is possible.