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The Baptism of Jesus. 9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son;[a] with you I am well pleased.”.
Jan 22, 2018 · Bart Ehrman’s quote above says that in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the wilderness immediately after His baptism, whereas in John, we don’t read of the specific baptism event — only John’s validation of Jesus and his recalling of Jesus’ baptism. Between the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John, Ehrman appears ...
εὐθύς] usual form in Mark; we must, with Tischendorf, read it here also. It belongs to ἀναβ.: immediately (after He was baptized) coming up. A hyperbaton (Fritzsche refers εὐθ. to εἶδε) just as little occurs here as at Matthew 3:16. εἶδε] Jesus, to whom also ἐπʼ αὐτόν refers (see on Matt. l.c.).
Nov 20, 2005 · The baptism of Jesus is a Trinitarian event. It is the Father who sends Him into the water. It is the Father who sends Him into the world. This is the Father’s Son who is being baptized, and it is the second person of the Trinity, who is united to the humanity of Jesus, that is now submitting to baptism.
The shared story gives little prominence to the actual baptism of Jesus; emphasis rather falls on what happens after Jesus is baptized. The declaration of Jesus’ divine sonship by the voice from heaven is the high point of the story. The words from heaven echo Ps 2.7 (You are my son) and Isa 42.1 (in whom my soul delights). Each Gospel writer ...
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When Jesus is baptized, he is carrying out the plan of the Father, laid down before the foundation of the world (1Pet 1:20). In response, God the Father acts in approval. “ [B]ehold, the heavens were opened to him.”. The opening signifies in visual form the opening of the way to God.
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Mark, Matthew, and Luke depict the baptism in parallel passages. In all three gospels, the Spirit of God — the Holy Spirit in Luke, "the Spirit" in Mark, and "the Spirit of God" in Matthew — is depicted as descending upon Jesus immediately after his baptism accompanied by a voice from Heaven, but the accounts of Luke and Mark record the voice as addressing Jesus by saying "You are my ...
