44 Dimensions of Baptism
well as his marriage to the ever ambitious Herodias, once his brother's
wife. That suggests that John affected Jesus more deeply than a passing
visit from Galilee to Judea for baptism (Mt. 3.13-17; Mk 1.9-11) would
indicate. Jesus would have known John during his adolescence, and the
purifier's perspective on cleanness and related matters proved to be a for-
mative influence.^54- Cf. B.D. Chilton, 'The Talmid of John', in his Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biog-
raphy (New York: Doubleday, 2000), pp. 41-63.