Jesus has been colonized meaning his jewishness was stripped and just about every other culture in the world has been given to him instead. Along with Jesus himself, different traditions were created in celebration of this colonized Jesus and one of those traditions is Baptism. But, baptism is not a new invention of Jesus, his disciples or the writers of the New Testament. In fact, baptism, or immersion from the Hebrew, has deep roots in the Old Testament and Judaism of the first century. The Jewish context of this important part of faith in Jesus is crucial to understanding the New Testament and for the application of immersion in your own life!