13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
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And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. …
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. …
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)Our Lord Jesus, from his childhood till now, when he was almost thirty years of age, had lain hid in Galilee, as it were, buried alive; but now, after a long and dark night, behold, the Sun of righteousness rises in glory. The fulness of time was come that Christ should enter upon his prophetical office; and he chooses to do it, not at Jerusalem (though it is probable that he went thither at the t…
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