Were the apostles ever recorded as being baptized?

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The thought popped in my head. I can’t recall ever having read any account of the apostles being baptized.
 
They must have received the divine equivalent of Baptism, because they were in the state of grace, and received other sacraments:
  1. We read:
    Jn 13:10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you_.”
    Jn 13:11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.”
and He received them into Holy Communion:
2) Mt 26:26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

and they were ordained priests, able to celebrate the Mass:
Lk 22:19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

and they were given the Holy Spirit, and the priestly faculty of the Sacrament of Penance:
Jn 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
Jn 20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
 
I’ve always kind of assumed that they followed Jesus into the Jordan, but I really have no basis for that . . .

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That’s what my thoughts were. It just kinda randomly occurred to me that it’s never mentioned when any of them are.
 
Some were John’s disciples. So they got one kind of immersion at least. I wouldn’t be surprised if most were John’s listeners, if not outright followers.
 
There isn’t any account of them being baptized by John the Baptist. The Gospel of John records that Andrew, the first apostle, was a disciple of John the Baptist, so this has led to people speculating that Andrew, and possibly Peter and John the apostle also, had been baptized by John the Baptist, but there’s nothing specifically written about that.
 
They were baptized first by John, most likely.

They were baptized by desire.

They were baptized by Jesus himself at the Last Supper.

Finally, they were baptized by blood at their martyrdoms.
 
Lots of things happened in the lives of Jesus and the Apostles that were not recorded in Scripture.
The idea that the Apostles weren’t baptized makes no sense in context; and lack of evidence is not evidence of lack.
 
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They were baptized by desire.
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They would have had this, most likely.

It’s questionable to me whether baptism by John the Baptist was actually commensurate with admitting people into the Christian church, given that John started his baptism ministry before Jesus started his public life, and the people who were coming to John for baptism were not all followers of Jesus, nor does it seem likely that every one of them became a follower of Jesus.

Even if we took Jesus’ own baptism as instituting the Sacrament of Baptism, where does that leave the people who were baptized before Jesus came along and participated, and also, John died shortly thereafter and there does not seem to have been anyone else doing water baptism ministry after that (it’s not like Jesus was taking people into the Jordan).

Plus, after Pentecost, didn’t Peter preach to people that they had to be re-baptized as Christians? He didn’t provide a free pass for anybody who’d already been to see John the Baptist.
 
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They definitely got that too.
I think the question on people’s minds though is that at the Last Supper, Jesus mentioned them as being “clean” and they went on to receive the Eucharist, so there was obviously some kind of baptismal experience prior to their receiving.
 
They certainly baptized others.

And those who had been baptized would baptize others, and it kept on from there.

Maybe quite similarly, they laid hands on those they sent out, and the sent laid hand on others.
 
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There is no evidence or circumstantial evidence to suggest they received Christian baptism.

There is reasonable circumstantial evidence to suggest they received the baptism of John.

There may be theological reason to assume they must have received Christian baptism.
But then again, there are theological arguments to suppose this would not have been strictly necessary for those who were his chosen disciples.
 
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Peter lists the original requirements for being selected as an apostle: Acts 1:21-22 RSV - 21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us–one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection." So yes they were baptized.
Grace and peace,
Bruce
 
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