The command in Mt 28:19; Mk 16:16 is all-embracing; so is the statement concerning the necessity of baptism in Jn 3:5. After reading these statements, one feels inclined, not to ask, Should infants be baptized? but Why should they not be baptized? The onus probandi rests on those who reject infant baptism. The desire to have their infants baptized must have been manifested on the day when the first three thousand were baptized at Jerus, assuming that they were all adults. The