READ Mark 1 COMMENTARY: : 8        I indeed have baptized you with water: but HE shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. (907 “baptize” [baptize] means to cause to be engulfed or plunged into something (whether literal or figurative), cause religious experience, to wash, to ceremonially cleanse, to show purity and initiation into Christ through repentance, or involving special manifestation of God’s power and presence.) DEVOTION:  John was to introduce his cousin to the rest of the world. He was given that assignment before he was born. The prophets told of this responsibility. He preached a message of repentance and baptized many. He lived in poor circumstances. Dressed according to the prophets dress of the time. He told everyone that he was a messenger sent from God to introduce the Messiah. He knew the difference between his ministry and that of…