DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Matthew. John protests: "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" (Matthew 3:14). Mark, Luke and John have no such protest.
Why it’s interesting
The protest answers a question the plain story raises: why would the greater one be baptized by the lesser? Because it is found only in Matthew and serves that Christian concern, it counts as less certain than the baptism itself.
Scholarly consensus
Learn the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.