The baptism of Jesus

grows out of · saved through water

1 Peter reads the ark as a picture of baptism: eight people brought safely through water into a cleansed world.

grows out of · baptised into Moses

Paul says Israel was 'baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea'. Jesus enters the water at the start of his own exodus.

points forward to · water then wilderness

Straight out of the water, Jesus is led into the desert for forty days — Israel's forty years compressed and reversed.