Matthew 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Matthew 3:15 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Cross-References

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John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Isaiah 42:21
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Psalms 40:7-8
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, …

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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…

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

(vv. 15)

15. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now--“Let it pass for the present”; that is, “Thou recoilest, and no wonder, for the seeming incongruity is startling; but in the present case do as thou art bidden.” for thus it becometh us--“us,” not in the sense of “me and thee,” or “men in general,” but as in Joh 3:11. to fulfil all righteousness--If this be rendered, with Scrivener, “e…