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Matthew 3:13

At that time Jesus. Matthew does not speak about the time from Nazareth (Matthew 2:23) until now. Luke speaks of Jesus in the Temple at twelve years old (Luke 2:41-50). He had worked in Nazareth as a carpenter (Mark 6:3). Galilee. Josephus (the Jewish historian) says this northern area of Palestine contained 240 towns and villages and a huge population. Nazareth was one of the towns. To be baptized. This was to set an example, but especially to be identified (John 1:33). Jesus walked 60 or 70 miles to come here to be baptized.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN COMETH JESUS - The Saviour is now introduced as about to enter on his work, or as about to be solemnly set apart to his great office of Messiah and Redeemer. The expression “cometh” implies that...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE HERALD OF THE KING; THE ENTRANCE UPON HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY. __ 1. The Herald of the King. (Matthew 3:1 .) 2. His Message and His Baptism. (Matthew 3:7 .) 3. The King in Jordan's Waters. (Matth...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BAPTISM OF JESUS (Mark 1:9 *, Luke 3:21 f.). Matthew 3:14 f. (Mt. only) meets the objection to the acceptance by a sinless Jesus of a baptism connected with repentance (p. 661). Jesus maintains (s...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. -- Matthew 3:13-17. GOLDEN TEXT. -_ This is my beloved Son, in whom. am well pleased._ -- Matthew 3:17. TIME. --When Jesus was about thirty years old, or about A. D. 26. In the y...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent him. "It is I, he said, "who need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?" Jesus answered h...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE EMERGENCE OF JOHN THE BAPTIZER (Matthew 3:1-6)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JESUS. See App-98. FROM. away from. Greek. _apo._ JORDAN. the Jordan....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jesus comes to be baptized of John. Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:32-34 St Luke adds two particulars: that the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus (1) "in a bodily shape," and (2) "while He was prayin...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then cometh Jesus … to be baptized of him_ Jesus who is the pattern of the New life submits to the baptism which is a symbol of the New life (_Metanoia_). He who has power to forgive sins seems to se...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἘΠῚ ΤῸΝ ἸΟΡΔΆΝΗΝ. Probably at “Ænon near to Salim” (John 3:23), a day’s journey from Nazareth, ‘close to the passage of the Jordan near Succoth and far away from that near Jericho.’ _Sinai and Palesti...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    JESUS COMES TO BE BAPTIZED OF JOHN Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:32-34. St Luke adds two particulars: that the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus (1) “in a bodily shape,” and (2) “while He was prayin...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 13. THEN COMETH JESUS FROM GALILEE TO JORDAN UNTO JOHN, TO BE BAPTIZED OF HIM. 14. BUT JOHN FORBAD HIM, SAYING, "I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE, AND COMEST THOU TO ME?" 15. AND JESUS ANSWERING...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _JOHN BAPTIZED JESUS TO FULFILL RIGHTEOUSNESS MATTHEW 3:13-17:_ Years ago a lady told me that since Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist that made Jesus a Baptist. If my hair was cut by John the bar...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ, _см._ Matthew 3:1. ΒΑΠΤΙΣΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. inf. pass. Inf._ употреблен для выражения цели, _см._ Matthew 3:6....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO BE BAPTIZED HIM— By this he intended to do an honour to John's ministry, and to conform himself to what he appointed for his followers. It was for this last reason, that he drank of the sacramental...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SECTION 6. JESUS IS BAPTIZED BY JOHN (Parallels: Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; cf. John 1:29-34) TEXT: 3:13-17 13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14. But...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. THEN COMETH JESUS FROM GALILEE TO JORDAN UNTO JOHN, TO BE BAPTIZED OF HIM. Moses rashly anticipated the divine call to del...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    18 Compare Jer_31:15. 18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel, who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    APPEARANCE OF THE BAPTIST. BAPTISM OF JESUS 1-12. John the Baptist's ministry. The circumstances of John's birth are detailed in Luke 1 (see notes there). He was sanctified from birth to be the foreru...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BAPTISM OF JESUS (Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21; John 1:32). The Baptism of Jesus has more than one aspect and significance. To John it was with its miraculous accompaniments a sign that Jesus was the promised...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 THE WORK OF JOHN THE *BAPTIST 3:1-12 V1 In those days, John the *Baptist appeared in Judea’s wild country. V2 He taught the people...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN COMETH JESUS. — We are brought here face to face with the question which the legend just quoted sought to answer, and cannot altogether turn aside from it: Why did the Lord Jesus come to the bapt...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 4 His Baptism - Matthew 3:13. "THE baptism of John, was it from Heaven or of men?" This question must have been asked throughout the length and breadth of the land in the days of his mission....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Jesus appears, His baptism and its accompaniments_ (Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22)....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Τότε παρα. ο Ἰ.… Γαλιλαίας : _then_, after John had described the Messiah, _appears on the scene_ (παραγίνεται, the historical present again, as in Matthew 3:1, with dramatic effect) _from Galilee_, w...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BAPTIZED WITH THE SPIRIT Matthew 3:13-17 While John was denouncing the sins of others, he was very conscious of his own. He melted in holy humility before the one nature in which his keen eye detect...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here ends the old prophetic line, John being the last of the Hebrew prophets. It found a fitting end in the stem ascetic who roused the nation and with vehement passion denounced their rebellion, and...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (7) Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. (7) Christ sanctified our baptism in himself....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    THE BAPTISM OF JESUS Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-23. _“Then Jesus comes from Galilee unto Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.”_ Our Lord was six months younger than John, and hence He a...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 4 MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST BY MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE Luke 3:1-2. “In the fifteenth year of the dominion of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. Here we have, at this verse, the introduction of the LORD of life and glory, in his public entrance upon his divine office, a...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _MANIFESTED BY FIRE_ ‘He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.’ Matthew 3:11 There are three baptisms in the New Testament: the baptism of John unto repentance; the baptism of Chris...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _UNQUENCHABLE FIRE_ ‘He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.’ Matthew 3:12 When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to purge His floor, He shall punish all who are not His disciples with a fearfu...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 3:13._That he might be baptized by him. _For what purpose did the Son of God wish to be baptized? This may be learned, in some measure, from his answer. We have already assigned a special reas...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We now begin His actual history. John the Baptist comes to prepare the way of Jehovah before Him, according to the prophecy of Isaiah; proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and calling o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN COMETH JESUS,.... That is, when John had been some time preaching the doctrine of repentance, and administering the ordinance of baptism; for which, time must be allowed, since he went into all t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. Ver. 13. _Then cometh Jesus from Galilee_] Our Saviour came far to seek his baptism. Let not us think much of any pains take...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then cometh Jesus_ Who was now about thirty years of age, _from Galilee_ Where he had long lived, in a retired manner, _unto John, to be baptized of him_ Not in testimony of his repentance, or for th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

      Baptism of Jesus. The time had now come for Jesus to enter upon His ministry, to be inducted into His office by a public ceremony: THEN COMETH JESUS FROM GALILEE TO JORDAN UNTO JOHN, TO BE BAPTIZE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Though John was of a priestly family, this too is not mentioned. He does not preach in the temple, but in the wilderness of the river Jordan, at least thirteen miles from Jerusalem. For a priest to pr...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-17 Christ's gracious condescensions are so surprising, that even the strongest believers at first can hardly believe them; so deep and mysterious, that even those who know his mind well, are apt t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Christ, who now was about thirty years of age, LUKE 3:23, cometh from Nazareth, a city in Galilee, where Joseph lived, LUKE 2:4, and whither he went with, Joseph and Mary, LUKE 2:39, and again after h...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies came down on Jesus;[66] Tertullian On Baptism ;[83] Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments and was baptized in the Jordan.[377] Pseudo-Gregory Thau...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 3:13 Then G5119 Jesus G2424 came G3854 (G5736) from G575 Galilee G1056 to G1909 John G2446 at...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised by him.' Having described what is to be, Matthew now moves on to the first stage of its coming into fruition. Jesus travels from Ga...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. THE MESSIAH IS REVEALED TO THE WORLD (3:1-17). Many years had passed by of which Matthew tells us nothing. He is not concerned to give us a biography of Jesus' life....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING ONE (3:11-17). John's large-scale ministry having been established in these few verses, Matthew now turns his attention to Jesus. We do not know how long John had been preaching before this...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THEN COMETH JESUS (τοτε παραγινετα ο Ιησους). The same historical present used in Matthew 3:1. He comes all the way from Galilee to Jordan "to be baptized by him" (του βαπτισθηνα υπο αυτου). The ge...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Matthew 3:13 The baptism of Christ was I. The proclamation of His human relationship to man, and of His human relationship to God. His development had reached its height. He was clearly conscious of...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand._ There is no entering the kingdom of heaven with...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand._ His was a preparatory ministry; his work was to...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 3:13. _Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?_ Who among us would n...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ministry of John the Baptist and baptism of Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John. CONCLUSION: To follow Jesus in the waters of baptism is to publicly acknowledge our separation from sin, de...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist._ When the time of the seventy weeks was fulfilled, when the sceptre was departed from Judah, and when all the east, according to Suetonius, expected...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Baptized of him._ THE BAPTISM OF OUR SAVIOUR I. The circumstance of title. 1. Seasonable. Men were at this time being baptized and confessing their sins. People were expecting the Christ (John 1:1...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 3:1 John the Baptist Prepares for the Messianic King­dom. John now appears, preaching in the Judean desert. It is more than 25 years since Joseph and his family moved back to N...

  • The Gospels Compared

    JESUS ' BAPTISM MATTHEW 3:13-17; MARK 1:9-11; LUKE 3:21-22; MATTHEW 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptize

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 3 _In those days_, &c. This was in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, as S. Luke says, when John and Christ were about thirty years of age. Matthew passes at once from the childhood of Christ to...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 3:13. JESUS … BAPTISED.—He received the rite as ratifying the mission of the great forerunner, and He also received it as the beautiful symbol of moral purification, and the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MATTHEW 3:1 THE HERALD. His public appearance and proclamation (Matthew 3:1, Matthew 3:2), as foretold by Scripture ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter Three In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea (Matthew 3:1). Now we have the silent years of Christ. We are jumping now from the return to Nazareth to the b...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Luke 3:21; Mark 1:9; Matthew 2:22...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PREACHING AND BAPTISM OF JOHN Matthew 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to present the great theme of John the Baptist as he preached in the wilderness of Judea. 1. THERE IS THE POSITIVE STATEMENT...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here we have our Savior's solemn inauguration and public entrance upon this prophetic office, by baptism, or washing with water, according to the manner of the priests under the ceremonial law, Exodus...

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