The Baptized People

All the people who were baptized, all whom need had drawn to the water of death—i.e. the Jordan—are next presented to us by Luke—all whom the sense of sin had impelled to that stream. And we see them, a company, owning their sins, and marked oft by the baptism of John from the proud and the lofty who rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not being baptized with John’s baptism. (Luke 7:30.)
Thus, one thing after another is brought up for our contemplation, and passed in review before us by Luke John’s preaching, his death, the multitudes whom he baptized—and then all are left so that we may be occupied with Jesus only—with Him, too, in His dependence. We are led to see Him in His perfection, being baptized—Luke does not even say that John baptized Him—we are led to look upon Himself alone, who is