Junior:

• Where was Jesus baptized (in Judea)
• Where is Judea? (See if you can find Judea on this map. (show map) (map 14 in the back of the Bible is great)
• Who baptized Jesus (John the Baptist)
• Was there anything special about him? (Yes, he held the correct authority from Heavenly Father to be able to baptize)
• How was Jesus baptized? (by immersion)
• What does Immersion mean? (to go totally beneath the water)Then I will show something totally immersed in a glass and demonstrate immersion.
• Did Jesus receive the Holy Ghost? (yes)
• How do we know? (because it said it descended on him like a dove)
• Why did Jesus have John the Baptist baptize him?
• How should we be baptized, we can’t go to Judea or find John the baptist? (answers should include by proper priesthood authority, by immersion.
• When you are baptized by authority, by immersion, and you promise to live the commandments, you are following the example of Jesus.

Senior:

• Where was Jesus baptized (in Judea)
  Where can we find out where Judea is?  (look in gazateer in back of bible, map 14, see if the kids can figure it out and find it themselves otherwise give them some hints)
• Who baptized Jesus (John the Baptist)
• Was there anything special about him? (Yes, he held the correct authority from Heavenly Father to be able to baptize)(show the following quote from Bible Dictionary, I think I will make it a transparency)
  
  Son of Zacharias and Elisabeth, being of priestly descent through both parents. This lineage was essential, since John was the embodiment of the law of Moses, designed to prepare the way for the Messiah and make ready a people to receive him. He was the outstanding bearer of the Aaronic Priesthood in all history, and was entrusted with its most noble mission
  
  He was a child of promise, with prophecies of his mission having been given by Isaiah.
  He grew up in the desert until the time arrived for his ministry to prepare the way for the Savior.
   
• How was Jesus baptized? (by immersion)
• What does Immersion mean? (to go totally beneath the water) Then I will show something totally immersed in a glass and demonstrate immersion.
• Why immersion? (symbolic of being buried and coming forth with new life)(
  
  Have child come up and read scripture:
  
  Romans 6: 4 Therefore we are aburied with him by bbaptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the cdead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should dwalk in enewness of life.
  
   
• How did John know that this was the Son of God? (the sign of the dove was given) (show following quote from Bible Dictionary)
• The sign of the dove, as an emblem for the Holy Ghost, was a pre-appointed signal by which John knew he was to recognize that he had baptized the Son of God. At the time of the baptism of Jesus, John saw the sign and heard the voice of the Father bearing record that Jesus was the Beloved Son, in whom the Father was well pleased.
• What do we need to do now to follow Jesus’ example?  (be baptized)