Matthew 3:14
John protested. "It is I," he said, "who have need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
Cross References
Luke 1:43But why is this honour done me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
John 3:3"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
Acts 1:5For John indeed baptized with water, but before many days have passed you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
Romans 3:25He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--
Galatians 3:27for all of you who have been baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Ephesians 2:3Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all 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 →