To speak of baptismal sprinkling would constitute a contradiction of terms. The verbs represent entirely different actions.
Second, there is not a solitary passage in the New Testament that lends any support to the idea that the act called baptism by the New Testament writers was administered by the sprinkling or pouring of water upon a persons head.
Albert Barnes, the Presbyterian scholar, attempted to defend sprinkling as a mode of baptism. Regarding Matthew 3:16, he wrote:
It literally means, he [Jesus] went up directly FROM the water. The original does not imply that they had descended into the river, and it cannot be proved, therefore, from this passage, that his baptism was by immersion (Commentary on Matthew, p. 30; emp. in original).
The argument is based upon the fact that the term from (ASV) is the Greek term apo, which generally means away from, and not out of (KJV), which normally is expressed by the word ek. But there are several things wrong with this argument.
Apo can be used in the sense of out of, as in the case of Luke 24:47, where the gospel was to go forth from, i.e., out of, Jerusalem. In fact, occasionally apo and ek are used interchangeably....
...Mark also wrote that Jesus was baptized of John in the Jordan (1:9). Actually, the preposition, rendered in in our common versions (yet see ASVfn), is eis, which means into. S.T. Bloomfield (1790-1869), of the Church of England (a church that practices sprinkling as a substitute for immersion) was honest enough to admit that the expression eis ton Iordanen meant that Jesus was baptized by being plunged into the water (The Greek Testament With English Notes, Vol. I, p. 158).
Finally, the theological connection between baptism, and the burial and resurrection of Christ (Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12), negates the notion that the rite may be performed by sprinkling or pouring. The prospective Christian is buried in the water of baptism with Christ. Just as Jesus was raised out of the tomb, so we also are raised from the liquid grave of baptism.
This analogy, among other matters, led John Henry Blunt (1823-1884), another Anglican scholar, to acknowledge (against his own church) that the primitive mode of baptizing was by immersion (Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, p. 75).
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