Ode 5. Irmos.

‘Held back by the bond of fear the Forerunner now reverently begs to be allowed not to baptize, as he looks on Christ, who roofs his upper chambers in the waters, standing naked in the water’.

The Wisdom of God, which hold the boundless upper water in the air, which reins in the deeps and holds back the seas, is coming to Jordan; while he accepts Baptism from the hand of a slave.

Having taken form, Christ has come to purify the first Adam by Baptism; while he who wraps the vault of heaven with clouds and clothes himself in light, is appears naked in the streams of Jordan, and he who bears the universe is grasped by a hand.