Mat 3:14-16 | ESV | STEP | John would have prevented him, saying , I need to be baptized by you , and do you come to me ?

d John 1:32, 33; [Luke 4:18, 21; Acts 10:38]

Matthew 3:14-16

14 ^aJohn 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. 16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, ^bthe heavens were opened to him, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit to him} and he ^dsaw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;