A clearer difference between John’s baptism and Christian baptism is their “temporal relations in the history of redemption.”24 John’s baptism was anticipatory; Christian baptism is the fulfillment of all that John anticipated. Thus, one may say that in John’s baptism sins were forgiven prospectively, or in hope, looking forward to the one to come, while in Christian baptism the reality of the forgiveness of sins is pronounced, because of what Christ has done.25 Thus, one of the obvious and yet monumentally