6. Baptism Required of All.--Baptism is required of all persons who live to the age of accountability in the flesh. None are exempt. Jesus Christ, who lived as a Man without sin in the midst of a sinful world, was baptized "to fulfil all righteousness." Six centuries before this event, Nephi, prophesying to the people on the western continent, foretold the baptism of the Savior, and thus drew therefrom the necessity of baptism as a universal requirement: "And now, if the Lamb of God, he being holy, should have need to be baptized by water, to fulfil all righteousness, O then, how much more need have we, being unholy, to be baptized, yea, even by water.... Know ye not that he was holy? But notwithstanding he being holy, he sheweth unto the children of men, that according to the flesh, he humbleth himself before the Father, and witnesseth unto the Father that he would be obedient unto him in keeping his commandments" (B. of M., 2 Nephi 31:5, 7). See _The Articles of Faith_, vi:18-29. FOOTNOTES: [273] 2 Kings 1:8. [274] Note 1, end of chapter. [275] Matt. 3:1-5; compare Lev. 11:22; see also Mark 1:1-8. Note 2, end of chapter. [276] Luke 3:2. [277] Exo. 3:1, 2. [278] 1 Kings 17:2-7. [279] Mark 1:3. [280] Mark 1:2; compare Isa. 40:3; Mal. 3:1; Matt. 11:10; Luke 7:27. [281] Matt. 3:11. [282] Matt. 3:7-10; see also Luke 3:3-9. [283] Compare a later instance, in which Christ similarly taught (John 8:33-59). [284] Luke 3:10; compare Acts 2:37. [285] Luke 3:10-15. [286] Mark 1:1. [287] John 10:41. [288] John 1:35, 37; Matt. 11:2; Luke 7:18. [289] Note 3, end of chapter. [290] Luke 3:17; see also Matt. 3:12; compare Mal. 3:2. [291] Matt. 11:11-14; 17:12; Luke 7:24-30. [292] Luke 3:23. [293] For treatment of Baptism as a universal requirement, see the author's "Articles of Faith" vi:18-29. Note 6, end of chapter. [294] Matt. 3:16, 17; compare Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21, 22. [295] Shortly before His death, the Savior promised the apostles that the Father would send unto them the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost (John 14:26, and 15:26). See the author's "Articles of Faith" ii:20-24. [296] Matt. 4:1-11; Mark 1:12, 13; Luke 4:1-13. [297] Matt. 4:4; compare Deut. 8:3. [298] Note 4, end of chapter. [299] Note 5, end of chapter. Page 658 herein. [300] Matt. 4:6; Psalm 91:11, 12. [301] Matt. 4:5-7; compare Deut. 6:16. [302] Pages 6-9. [303] Matt. 4:10, 11; compare Exo. 20:3; Deut. 6:13; 10:20; Josh. 24:14; 1 Sam. 7:3. [304] Luke 4:13. [305] Luke 22:28. [306] Luke 22:28. [307] Heb. 4:14, 15. [308] Heb. 5:8. CHAPTER 11. FROM JUDEA TO GALILEE. THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY OF JESUS.