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- As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
biblehub.com/matthew/3-16.htmMatthew 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of ...
After He was baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and settling on Him, - What is the meaning of Matthew 3:16?
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Sep 18, 2024 · In John 3, Jesus uses the phrase “born of water” in answer to Nicodemus’s question about how to enter the kingdom of heaven. He told Nicodemus that he “must be born again” (John 3:3). Nicodemus questioned how such a thing could happen when he was a grown man.
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At the dawn of Jesus’s public ministry, great crowds of people were coming out to the wilderness by the Jordan River where Jesus’s cousin, John, preached and baptized. “Prepare the way of the Lord,” he urged as he quoted the prophet Isaiah (Mark 1:3). John considered himself to be the herald of God’s long-expected arrival in the person of the Messi...
At his baptism, Jesus offered himself without reservation to his Father as he began the public phase of his redeeming mission. What might Jesus have been praying as he waited with the others to descend from the banks into the Jordan? The author of Hebrews places Psalm 40 on Jesus’s lips, and the beginning of his ministry seems like an ideal time fo...
Being baptized by John meant admission of sin and the need for forgiveness. But Jesus was sinless! How could he confess sin, even by gesture if not by words? Jesus’s baptism represents his total identification with the people he came to save. Paul tells us that God made him who knew no sin to become sin on our behalf (2 Corinthians 5:21). This taki...
At the same time Jesus identified with common humanity at his baptism, the Holy Spirit and the Father identified Jesus as the unique Son of God. When Jesus came up from the water, the Spirit of God descended on him in the likeness of a dove (Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22). Jesus had been conceived in Mary’s womb by the power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35), ...
Christ’s baptism in the waters of the Jordan also anticipated his baptism in blood on the cross. Jesus deliberately alluded to this event when he predicted his passion: “I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!” (Luke 12:50). He had consecrated himself to his Father as his ministry began. But a gr...
With Emperor Constantine’s conversion in AD 312, Christianity came to be publicly accepted, and then, by 323, our faith was the official religion of the Roman Empire. With the subsequent conversion of multitudes of former pagans, a massive number of baptisms occurred. So, the church constructed many beautiful baptisteries to receive these new belie...
When Jesus ascended out of the water the heavens opened and He (Jesus) saw the spirit of God descending as a dove coming upon Him. According to many interpreters, including many of the Fathers, the occurrence was of the nature of a vision, the appearance of a dove coming out of the heavens.
New Living Translation. As Jesus came up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Holy Spirit descending on him like a dove. English Standard Version. 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.
{5} And straightway {g} coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: (5) The vocation of Christ from heaven, as head of the Church. (g) John, who went down into the water with Christ.
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Dec 29, 2020 · Why did Jesus walk on the water? What does it mean? Some scholars find parallels in this story to Moses in the Old Testament leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea during Passover.
