Matthew 3:13 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 3:13

At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

BSB

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ASV

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

KJV

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 13, 14.) Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent him, saying: I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me? But Jesus answered and said to him: The Savior accepted baptism from John for three reasons. First, to fulfill all righteousness and humility of the Law, because he was born as a human. Second, to confirm the baptism of John with his own baptism.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Then cometh Jesus - The Saviour is now introduced as about to enter on his work, or as about to be solemnly set apart to his great office of Messiah and Redeemer. The expression “cometh” implies that the act was voluntary on his part; that he went for that purpose and for no other. He left the part of Galilee - Nazareth - where he had lived for nearly 30 years, and went to the vicinity of the Jordan, where John was baptizing the people in great numbers, that he might be set apart to his work.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

We have here the account of our Lord Jesus Christ’s baptism. This was his first step when he entered on his ministry. When the Jewish priests took up their office they were washed with water ( Exodus 29:4 ), and when our great High Priest begins the great work he came into the world to accomplish he is publicly baptized. We should notice firstly in these verses the honour placed upon the sacrament of baptism . An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus himself partook is not to be lightly esteemed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Thus, as He rode into Jerusalem upon an ass "whereon yet never man sat" (Lu 19:30), and lay in a sepulchre "wherein was never man yet laid" (Joh 19:41), so in His baptism, too. He would be "separate from sinners."

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τότε	Tote	Then	G5119 →
παραγίνεται	paraginetai	comes	G3854 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Γαλιλαίας	Galilaias	Galilee	G1056 →
ἐπὶ	epi	to	G1909 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
Ἰορδάνην	Iordanēn	Jordan	G2446 →
πρὸς	pros	unto	G4314 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰωάννην	Iōannēn	John	G2491 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
βαπτισθῆναι	baptisthēnai	to be baptized	G907 →
ὑπ᾽	hup᾽	by	G5259 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 2:22
But when he learned that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district…
leads to
- Luke 2:39
  When Jesus’ parents had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
- Isaiah 48:17–18
  Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
- John 7:52
  “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
- Psalms 107:6–7
  Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
- Acts 9:13–14
  But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.