-- 15. For the Lord Jesus might, if He had so thought fit, have given the power of His baptism to some one or more of His chief servants, whom He had already made His friends, such as those to whom He says, "Henceforth I call you not servants, but friends

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Footnotes:

[1497] John 15:15.

[1498] Numbers 17:8.

[1499] 1 Corinthians 1:12-15.

[1500] Matthew 3:14.

[1501] John 1:32, 33.