21Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
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And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. …
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. …
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. …
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. …
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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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 t…
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