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The reason, although contrary to the order of the organized Church, John the Baptist conferred the Priesthood to Joseph and Oliver Cowdery, then instructed them to baptize one another, and to re-confer the Priesthood.
What is there was no one living in mortality who held the keys of the Priesthood to perform the baptisms, so one who had passed beyond the veil to officiate and labor for the living on earth.