Matthew 3:14
But John tried to dissuade Him saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and You are coming to me?”
Family 35 New Testament
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 to be baptized by him.
Cross References
Luke 1:43Why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
John 3:3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten from Above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”
Acts 1:5John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Romans 3:25whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the previously committed sins;
Galatians 3:27As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ
Ephesians 2:3among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.
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 →