Can nations be baptized? Jesus thought so. His last words in Matthew’s Gospel are, “Go therefore and disciple the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you.” So did Paul, for whom the exodus was the baptism of Israel: Our fathers “were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea” (1 Cor. 10:2).

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