O Batismo de Jesus: o sentido escatológico do reino de Deus

Abstract

In his public life Jesus never baptized anyone. But his disciples rite resume almost immediately after the resurrection. The first communities were not only driven by the story of Jesus, but by practical experience of Him the Kingdom announced by Jesus’ baptism is a sign of His approval on the next message of the coming of the Kingdom of God. The “good news” is the hope of the world oppressed and hopeless. It appears not as a distant horizon, or spiritual or outside history. The hope of Jesus is the gift that resonates and asks that gift. It is an active hope, dynamic; full of grace and presence of God who wants a change in the world and shows the man, through Jesus, that change is possible. The practice of the act of Jesus from His baptism is the eschatological hope in God which becomes an engine for transforming act, which corresponds to the values of the Kingdom of God. From the perspective of Jesus’ life, is no longer possible for man to be indifferent and become only a spectator of the real world where players take advantage of this passivity and indolence to deploy “his kingdom” and take advantage of them selfish. There will be no hope for humanity except by recognizing its responsibility in the suffering that he causes.