Luke 3:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Luke 3:21 —

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Cross-References

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John 1:32-34
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. …
Matthew 3:13-17
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. …
Mark 1:9-11
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. …
John 12:27-28
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. …
Matthew 14:23
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-38)

The evangelist mentioned John’s imprisonment before Christ’s being baptized, though it was nearly a year after it, because he would finish the story of John’s ministry, and then introduce that of Christ. Now here we have, I. A short account of Christ’s baptism, which had been more fully related by St. Matthew. Jesus came, to be baptized of John, and he was so, Luke 3:21, 22. 1. It is here said tha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. when all the people were baptized--that He might not seem to be merely one of the crowd. Thus, as He rode into Jerusalem upon an ass, “whereon yet never man sat” (Lu 19:30), and lay in a sepulchre “wherein was never man yet laid” (Joh 19:41), so in His baptism He would be “separate from sinners.”