Matthew 3:14
But John refused him, saying, “I ought to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
In Context
13Then Jesus came from Galilee, to John at the Jordan, in order to be baptized by him.
Cross References
Luke 1:43And how does this concern me, so that the mother of my Lord would come to me?
John 3:3Jesus responded and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn anew, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”
Acts 1:5For John, indeed, baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.”
Romans 3:25whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,
Galatians 3:27For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have become clothed with Christ.
Ephesians 2:3And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 3:14-17
The Baptism of Jesus. 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 said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon… Read the whole commentary →