They were baptized by Him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins. - Matthew 3:6
Picture John waist-deep in water with people streaming out to be baptized - baptizing them unto repentance,k preparing them to encounter the Savior. I believe they were quite specific confessing their sins. In all likelihood they were crying out these confessions, maybe even wailing, weeping over them.
Then came Christ. He was not coming to be baptized unto repentance. he was the spotless Lamb of God. Complete perfection. He was the only One who had no confessing to do that day in those waters. He came for John to baptize Him.
But I see something so precious in the fact that the people had confessed their sins standing in those same waters. He was baptized - drenched in the same waters where they had confessed their sins. Can you almost see Him wearing the sins they had confessed there?
Those of us who have already received Christ have been baptized into Him. How daily confession and repentance is like refreshment to our souls. We come away cleansed. Ready to be filled. Ready to walk in the Spirit.
It is I who seep away your transgressions for My own sake and remember your sins no more. - Isaiah 43:25.