Who Baptized John Baptist?

Luke 1:11-38 -

The Law and Gospel are contrasted in the persons of Zachariah and Mary respectively. Zachariah, ministering amidst elements of promises as yet unfulfilled, seeks a sign of confirmation. Mary, having heard the promises fulfilled in Elizabeth, receives by grace the Word regarding all that God would effect in and through her.  Zechariah could see only his own impotence. They that serve the law can know no power  other than that of their own frail volition. Mary, dubious as to the process, accepted unreservedly the angelic decree because the process of deliverance had already begun in Elizabeth, she could trust that which God had already begun. So it is with us, we who are born again, "not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God." John 1:13.

The prophetic fulfillment of the Law, that is, the place to which God was and is bringing us under the Law, is embodied by John Baptist.  We require a baptism for the remission of sins. We have no recourse other than an entire immersion into what God has wrought for us in Christ.  As we did not initiate this, but must respond by a God given faith, I can see no greater picture of such ineffectuality on our part than the helpless infant at the baptismal font. Can such an infant have faith? John Baptist was, "filled with the Spirit" in Elizabeth's womb and leaped for joy at the sound of Mary's greeting (Luke 1:44). Surely this was no more prodigous and no less normative than spiritually dead men and women being raised to new life in Christ! Biblical Christianity must believe that as "all things are possible with God" (Luke 1:37), the infant is as spiritually responsive to the means of Grace as the adult, though as yet incommunicative.