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**Mom, if you read your bible, like you say you do, you should be able to answer your own questions. Luke Chapter 3: 1-22.***

That post was in response to this where I wrote

I was born a sinner in need of a Savior..no one told me I could not save myself..That had to come from a rebirth...amazing!

And you responded

Mom, get out your bible. Mark 1:9-11. Jesus was Baptised, too. And Confirmed all in one shot.

That was a non answer

As a Catholic then you believe that Baptism is the beginning of your ministry?

Now this is here expressed by a sensible evidence for his encouragement in his work, and for the satisfaction of John the Baptist; for he was told before that by this sign it should be notified to him which was the Christ. Dr. Lightfoot suggests that the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape, that he might be revealed to be a personal substance, and not merely an operation of the Godhead: and thus (saith he) was made a full, clear, and sensible demonstration of the Trinity, at the beginning of the gospel; and very fitly is this done at Christ’s baptism, who was to make the ordinance of baptism a badge of the profession of that faith in the doctrine of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

5. There came a voice from heaven, from God the Father, from the excellent glory (so it is expressed, 2 Pt. 1:17), Thou art my beloved Son. Here, and in Mark, it is expressed as spoken to Christ; in Matthew as spoken of him: This is my beloved Son. It comes all to one; it was intended to be a notification to John, and as such was properly expressed by, This is my beloved Son; and likewise an answer to his prayer, and so it is most fitly expressed by. Thou art. It was foretold concerning the Messiah, I will be his Father, and he shall be my Son, 2 Sa. 7:14. I will make him my First-born, Ps. 89:27. It was also foretold that he should be God’s elect, in whom his soul delighted (Isa. 42:1); and, accordingly, it is here declared, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Matthew Henry

It did indeed set Jesus a part as the fulfilled prophecy...
The question was
Was he baptised BECAUSE he need to be "born again" or was it a "sign"

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