So, your sure that you understand absolutely all possibilities of what one means in the context. Just maybe we don't know as much as we think we do. Read the last couple of chapters of Job. Do we understand how it would have been a true statement, when Jesus was told to rebuke His followers for...
Niether did He need to be baptised, as the babtist said, I have need to be pabtised by you. His answer, suffer it to be so that all righteousness be fulfilled. He showed us many things by example, not for His edification but for ours. I hope this helps.