Luke 3:21
When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
20Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.
Cross References
Matthew 14:23After He had sent them away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone,
Luke 5:16Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
Luke 9:28About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.
John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
Matthew Henry on Luke 3:16-21
Imprisonment of John the Baptist. 15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; 16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire… Read the whole commentary →