Luke 3:21,22

The baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11). ἐν τῷ βαπτισθῆναι : the aorist ought to imply that the bulk of the people had already been baptised before Jesus appeared on the scene, i.e., that John's ministry was drawing to its close (so De Wette; but vide Burton, M. and T., p. 51, § 109, on the effect ἐν). καὶ Ἰ. βαπτισθέντος : so Lk. refers to the baptism of Jesus, in a participial clause, his aim not to report the fact, but what happened after it. On the different ways in which the synoptists deal with this incident, vide on Mt. προσευχομένου : peculiar to Lk., who makes Jesus pray at all crises of His career; here specially noteworthy in connection with the theophany following: Jesus in a state of mind answering to the preternatural phenomena; subjective and objective corresponding. σωματικῷ εἴδει, in bodily form, peculiar to Lk., and transforming a vision into an external event. Σὺ εἶ : the voice, as in Mk., addressed to Jesus, and in the same terms.