Side by Side with Sinners

Friends, we come to this wonderful feast of the baptism of the Lord. And the first thing to know is that this was a profoundly embarrassing event for the first Christians. Jesus is the son of God, the sinless Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. So why is he going to John the Baptist to seek a baptism of repentance? Jesus begins his public ministry with a kind of embarrassing, humiliating act—and, in a way, that is the point of it.

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Side by Side with Sinners is an episode from Bishop Robert Barron’s Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies by Bishop Robert Barron.

This episode is 15:09 long.

This episode was published on Jan 5, 2026.

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