Flower of Devotion

Venerable Mary of Jesus, in her apparitions, describes the baptism of the Lord Jesus as follows:

“Our Saviour went to the Jordan, where His predecessor John taught and baptized. It was near Bethany, which lay on the other side of the river, and was also called Bethhabara. Taking His first steps outside the home, the Saviour lifted up His divine eyes to the eternal Father, and offered Him with ardent love all that He intends to do and suffer for mankind. And so His hardships, His sorrows, His Passion, His Death on the Cross, which He wanted to suffer for them in obedience to the eternal Father. He also offered the sorrow which he had caused him, as a real and obedient Son, to be parted from his Mother and to renounce her sweet companionship, which he had enjoyed for more than twenty-nine years.
When the Son of God came to the Jordan, He asked St. John to baptize Him.
The Baptist, enlightened by a supernatural light, recognized the Lord, fell at His feet, held Him back, and said, as St. Matthew writes: “I am to be baptized of you, and you are going to me?” The Divine Savior answered, “Cease now, for it is fitting for us to do all righteousness.”
Obedient to the Lord’s command, St. John was baptized, and when this was done, Heaven was opened, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Head of Jesus in the visible form of a dove, and the voice of the Father was heard, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Many present heard this voice from Heaven and saw the Holy Spirit in the form in which it descended upon our Lord.
This act of humility, which the Saviour completed by taking the form of a sinner, and being baptized with such as were really sinners, was offered by the Divine Saviour to the eternal Father together with His obedience. By this submission he wished to recognize that in respect to his human nature, which was proper to him with the other children of Adam, he was inferior to the Father. At the same time, he also wanted to institute the Sacrament of Baptism, which, by virtue of his merits, was to forgive and wash away the sins of the world.