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The Baptism of Jesus marks the beginning of Jesus Christ's public ministry. This event is recorded in the Canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke and in the apocryphal Gospel of the Hebrews, but not the Gospel of John. [1] [2]

  1. Matthew 3:13–17; Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–22.
  2. Keith Akers, The lost religion of Jesus: simple living and nonviolence in early Christianity, Lantern Books, 2000 pp.45 - 47
Francesco Albani's The Baptism of Christ
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