This lesson examines the history of baptism prior to John the Baptist’s and Jesus’ teaching of baptism that we read about in the New Testament. What would their listeners have understood about baptism at that time? How was baptism performed in that day and time? Under what conditions were individuals baptized? This lesson presented by Joe Greer seeks to answers these questions in the context of history and help us to understand how baptism in the New Testament should be understood today. Click on the following link to listen or right click to download.