Original sentence: According to these accounts, Jesus came to the Jordan River where John the Baptist had been preaching and baptizing people in the crowd.After Jesus was baptized and rose from the water, Mark states Jesus "saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove.All three synoptic Gospels describe the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, an event which Biblical scholars describe as the beginning of Jesus' public ministry.Jesus persisted, "It is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness" ().Matthew describes John as initially hesitant to comply with Jesus' request for John to baptize him, stating that it was Jesus who should baptize him.The Gospel of John doesn't include the baptism but does attest that Jesus is the very one about whom John the Baptist had been preaching—the Son of God.Then a voice came from heaven saying: 'You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased'" ()
Edited sentence: "  Jesus has to convince him to do it.According to Mark, Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee came to the Prophet John and was baptized by him, whereupon a Spirit descended upon him and a voice from Heaven told him he was God's Son.By the time Matthew is written, the story goes that John respectfully refused to baptize Jesus, saying "I need to be baptized by you.Luke doesn't explicitly state that John baptized Jesus, his baptism is only mentioned after John is imprisoned.Other later sources tend to undercut the authority of John for the benefit of Jesus' theologically imperative supremacy.Problematic is the fact that John's baptism was for the forgiveness of sins, which an already divine Jesus might be thought not to have.The Gospel of John also contains no mention of John baptizing Jesus but does attest that Jesus is the very one about whom John the Baptist had been preaching—the real Son of God, not the <i> divi filius<i> who appeared on the Roman silver denarius, or Caesar.This reflected the dilemma whether in the earliest stratum of historical Christianity Jesus was born God, became God upon baptism, or even later, became God upon crucifixion.Two of the synoptic Gospels describe the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, one of the most reliably historical events in Jesus' life (see Criterion of Embarrassment), and an event which was the beginning of Jesus' public ministry