Matthew 3:16
After he was baptized {John baptized Jesus}, Jesus immediately came up out of the water. Just then, it was as though the sky was opened {split apart}. Then Jesus saw God’s Spirit coming down upon him. He came in the form of a dove.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
17Then God [SYN] spoke from heaven, saying, “This is my Son. I love him. I am very pleased with him.”
Cross References
Isaiah 11:2The Spirit of Yahweh will always be with him. The Spirit will enable him to be wise and to understand much about many things. The Spirit will enable him to decide what is good to do, and will enable him to be very powerful. The Spirit will enable him to know Yahweh and to revere him.
Isaiah 59:21This is what Yahweh says to his people: “This is the agreement that I will make with you: My Spirit will not leave you, and you will always have my message. You will be able to declare it [MTY], and your children and grandchildren will be able to declare it forever.”
Ezekiel 1:1I am Ezekiel, a priest, the son of Buzi. When I was 30 years old, I was living among the Israeli people who had been ◄exiled from/forced to leave► Judah and had come to Babylon. I was living along the Kebar River/Canal south of Babylon. Almost five years after King Jehoiachin had been ◄exiled/forced to leave Judah►, on the fifth day of the fourth month of that year, it was as though the sky was opened and I saw visions from God. On that day,
Luke 3:21But before John was put in prison, when many people were being baptized {when he was baptizing many people}, after Jesus was baptized {he baptized Jesus} and Jesus was praying, the sky opened.
John 3:34We know it is true because Jesus, the one God sent, speaks the message of God. That is also true because God causes his Spirit to live in Jesus to completely direct everything he says and does.
Colossians 1:18And God’s Son ranks above everything, because it is his Son who rules over his people [MET] as a person’s head controls his physical body, because his Son causes his people to live spiritually. God’s Son is the first one who became alive again, in order that he should become more important than anything and everyone.
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 →