John baptised in the River Jordan. In a sense those waters were teeming with the sins of mankind. John had baptised multitudes of converts there; their sins figuratively passing from them into the sea of God’s forgetfulness, just like the waters of the River Jordan end up in the Dead Sea.

Bob Gass

Source: The UCB Word For Today, 7/1/2016

John baptised in the River Jordan. In a sense those waters were teeming with the sins of mankind. John had baptised multitudes of converts there; their sins figuratively passing from them into the sea of God’s forgetfulness, just like the waters of the River Jordan end up in the Dead Sea.

Bob Gass

Source: The UCB Word For Today, 7/1/2016