It is striking to contemplate how Jesus, tired of his diatribes with the Jews, trying to make them understand that God was their Father and that He had come into the world to announce that they, too, were called to share in that same filiation, withdrew to a place dear to him. He went to the side of the Jordan, where He had been anointed and presented to the world as the Beloved Son of the Father. It is as if He felt the need to renew that grace and thus prepare himself for what awaited him. Everything pointed to his end being near because the Jews could not bear that someone proclaimed himself equal to God and, even less, that He invited them to change their image of God. Will this not also be for us a moment, at the end of Lent, to prepare ourselves to truly live the baptismal renewal that we will celebrate at the Easter Vigil?