But I am surprised to hear you say that you do not believe the Saviour to have been immersed by John.
_Mr.M._ It was not Christian baptism, at any rate, if he were; for the names of the Trinity are essential to Christian baptism, and those names had not been thus applied.
Besides, John could not have plunged and lifted those thousands without superhuman strength and endurance, which we know he did not possess.

The same reasoning applies, in the baptism of the three thousand at the day of Pentecost, both as respects what I have said of raiment, and the time and strength of the apostles.
The baptism of the Eunuch was, to my mind, most probably by sprinkling, making no change of raiment necessary.

"See, here is water,"-- a spring, or stream, by the road-side, quite as likely (and, travellers now say, more probably) as a pond.

Yes, sir, Philip went down into the water just as much as the Eunuch did, if we follow the Greek literally.

I think that _down_ refers to the chariot, the act of leaving it to go to the water.