Why Jesus had to be baptized?

Why, if Jesus is the Son of God, needed to baptize? Why do one needs to be baptized with water? Why not with a barrel filled with water but had to be necessarily in a river?

Water is composed only of two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen (H2O) and between these molecules are simple chemical bonds. Nevertheless, these bonds are very difficult to break. It is the most important molecule for the planet and in turn makes the world readily for living.

Being only two molecules of hydrogen and oxygen, Jesus simply could have taken them from the air but chose to enter the river, why?

Definitely the water has other properties besides the ones that can give hydrogen and oxygen. This is called emergent properties since they arise from the new molecule that comes from the combination of O and H. Water has features that go beyond the chemical; for example, water awakens and enlivens the senses. We have all felt, when we entered a cold lake or river, a special feeling that awakens the senses, it is a different feeling. Water purifies, moisturizes, cleans, refreshes. And in the baptism Gospel reading we see the holiness of it.

Sanctify comes from the Latin meaning to put something aside or make clean, spotless. It also means to dedicate something to God.

Jesus, being baptized in the Jordan, is confirming the sanctifying element of water. It’s clearly something that connects us and unites us to God. If the water sanctifies and brings us together and connect to God, then why not treat it as such?

We all know the problems of water, regardless if there is too much water or not, if you can purify it or not, to be a sacred element, we must protect and use it as we would use any other element that unites us with God. This means not wasting it, not polluting it, in short rediscover that water more than H2O, it is a part of the creation that unites us spiritually with the Father.