It's texts like this one from Acts 19 that create so many misunderstandings and downright disagreements about baptism for all ages.
There was a story about a mom who glanced out through her kitchen window at her children playing across the yard. It was one of those games children play that looks complicated to the outside eye but for them it makes perfect sense. They had brought out a shovel and dug a hole in the soft dirt of the garden, dragged over the garden hose, and had an array of dolls lying on the ground. Then the process began. The daughter picked up the dolls one at a time, soaked them with water, handed it to her brother who threw it into the hole. Unable to figure out this game, the mom went out and asked what they were doing. The boy said, "We are playing baptism. Watch." Her…