Matthew 3:14
But Juchanon prohibited him, and said, I need from thee to be baptized, and hast thou come unto me?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 came Jeshu from Galila unto Jurdan to Juchanan to be baptized of him.
Cross References
Luke 1:43Whence unto me is this, That the mother of my Lord should come to me?
John 3:3Jeshu answered and said to him, Amen, amen, I say to thee, Except a man be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of Aloha.
Acts 1:5For Juhanon baptized with waters, but you shall be baptized with the Spirit of Holiness after days not many.
Romans 3:25whom Aloha before ordained (to be) a propitiation through faith in his blood for our sins which from the first we had sinned, within the space which Aloha hath given to us in his patience,
Galatians 3:27For they who into the Meshiha are baptized have been clothed with the Meshiha.
Ephesians 2:3in those works in which we also walked from the first in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of our flesh and of our mind, and were the sons of wrath fully as 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 →