of Jesus’ humanity.…”47 But Brown’s insistence that the coming of Jesus “in water” referred, for the secessionists, to John’s baptizing of Jesus then evidently causes him to maintain that they were nevertheless “stressing the importance of pre-existence to the point of neglecting the flesh or the humanity of Jesus” and that the author, in response, was insisting on the salvific importance of “the humanity of Jesus.”48 The christological point at issue in 5:5–8 between the author and the secessionists,