If we follow the logic offered to imitate Jesus' example, to the T, the Baptist would see us coming and he'd proclaim to everyone, "look who comes!" and then say to us, "it is me that should be baptized by you," and we'd reply, "let it be done in order to fulfill all righteousness"... and then we'd be led into the wilderness and, eventually, be crucified. No doubt, ye all would say to that proposition, "don't be ridiculous."
However, at what point do we accept that Jesus has fulfilled all righteousness? And at what point is all our righteousness fulfilled in Him?
I was baptized the summer I was to turn 14. I didn't return for the documentation, so I really don't recall the exact date and whether I saw actually 13 and not yet 14 but, at any rate, in Hebrew tradition, at the time well past the bat mitzvah that would consider me and adult. But it seems that I was driven into the wilderness the next 10 years until Oct 28, 1993, 11am (at its commencement) when I emerged standing firm in the Lord. Not that I persecuted Christians or was struck blind, but it was a sort of Damascus experience where scales fell from my eyes and I my sight was proverbially restored, and I knew true elation that no one has been able to discourage since.
I write this only FWIW.
