make him unclean, but he cured them, so in this case, “He needed no fortifying rites himself—his purpose was to hallow water.”19 John Chrysostom saw only one more instance of a general pattern in which God becomes human, and “in these humiliations his exaltation most shines forth.”20 What happens is worth some detailed attention. Those who practice baptism by immersion will note with pleasure that Jesus comes up out of the water. The verb describing what happens to the heavens is an exceedingly forceful