Verse 48
48. Commanded He performed not, it seems, the baptism himself, but gave direction that others, namely, the Christians from Joppa, should perform it, as an inferior office seldom performed by apostles. So Jesus baptized not, but his disciples, and Paul seldom himself performed the rite. (1 Corinthians 1:17.) The relation of the baptismal consecration, as to Christ, is stated with different prepositions in the Greek. Into the name of Father, Son, etc., Matthew 28:19. Into my own name, 1 Corinthians 1:15. Into Christ, Acts 6:3; Galatians 3:27. Here in the name. To be baptized into Christ, or into his name, is to be consecrated, as it were, into his mystical body; to be baptized in his name is to be consecrated by or in his authority.
Tarry certain days Fully to indoctrinate them in the Gospel history and principles. The ancient tradition is that Mark’s Gospel was really in substance written from Peter’s oral narration of its facts. Had Mark been with Peter at this time he probably could have mainly written his complete Gospel from Peter’s utterance; and very likely written records were made for the Church at this time. We have here, then, a Gentile Church commenced in Cesarea, with its Gospel tradition and documents derived from apostolic lips. (See note on Luke 1:1-2.
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