Besides, those multitudes who came to John's baptism needed "much water" for themselves and their beasts.
_Mrs.K._ But the Saviour went down into the water, and came up out of the water.
_Mr.M._ So did John, in the same sense; and so did "both Philip and the Eunuch;" but John and Philip did not, therefore, go under the water.

But Mr.Kelly will tell you that _down in_ to, and _up out_ of, might as well have been translated to and from, in the case of the Eunuch.

If you insist that going down into the water involves immersion, it follows that Philip went under the water with the Eunuch, and there baptized him.
_Mr.K._ We shall set those matters right in that new version of the Bible which you were complaining of the last time I saw you.

Down into, and up out of, are required by the word baptize, which means immerse.
_Mr.M._ No, my dear sir, not always, even in the New Testament.

The word had come, even in the Saviour's time, to signify purification, or consecration, irrespective of the mode.