Mark says that after Jesus was baptized, when He was “coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove” (Mark 1:10). Luke writes in Acts 8:39, “When they [Philip and the eunuch] came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.” From the New Testament one would conclude that baptism was an act that took much water, the