Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), John 4:1‭-‬2 ESV Jesus saved his one time baptism for his death. His baptism is his blood that washes us and makes us righteous in him. Without it, how can we have eternal life? Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 3:36 ESV Whether someone believes scripture is from man, or from God, or a mix of both, it is an anchor belief. Our belief dictates our reality and he who has the strongest beliefs has the strongest reality. A belief in Jesus is the ultimate anchor and ultimate reality. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” John 3:16‭-‬21 ESV There is no other way to eternal life. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, John 3:14 ESV He is the ultimate caduceus. Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:5‭-‬8 ESV The world will never understand those who choose to believe and have received eternal life, as we're dead to ourselves, a new creation. Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 ESV What he spoke came to pass. Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” John 2:19 ESV