Jesus’ Baptism: Three Views

Sidebar to: Why Jesus Went Back to Galilee

Matthew 3:13–17

Mark 1:9–11
Luke 3:19–22

(19) When Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, (20) added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

(13) Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him. (14) John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” (15) But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

(9) In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee,
(21) Now when all the people were baptized,

(16) And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water,

and was baptized by John in the Jordan. (10) And immediately coming up out of the water,
and when Jesus also had been baptized,
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