stepping into that muddy river, you were announcing to everyone that Judaism with its dead forms had not profited you. You were a sinner and needed God to do something on the inside to make you different. You were required not only to verbally confess specific sins to John upon being baptized, but the baptism itself declared that you recognized your whole root to be no good. You wanted God to lay His axe against the cause of sin in you.
Wow!!
