Ode 1. Tone 2. Irmos.

‘To the Lord who by his divine command dried up the pathless raging sea and guided the Israelite people through it on foot let us sing; for he has been greatly glorified’.

The ineffable condescension of the Creator shone previously from a Virgin and shed light on the world; Christ himself again about to accomplish another mystery, is coming for the rebirth of mortals in Jordan.

About to act as servant of a fearful work the Forerunner, the voice of the Word, is now drawing near to Jordan; the One rich in Godhead, Christ, has come to make beggared Adam rich through the Spirit by the gift of Baptism.