“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.”
Matthew 3:15 KJV
As Matthew recorded, “Jesus replied, “It is only right to do all that God requires.” Then John baptized Jesus.” Jesus would have been about thirty years old which was the age when Leviticus priests were ordained to serve. This was Jesus’s ordination as the High Priest over the household of faith. John being the real high priest of that time now dedicates to God the Temple of Jesus’s Body and was ordaining his replacement. Jesus was not repenting, but offering Himself as God’s sinless Lamb. This was the presentation of the Lamb of God as the sacrifice for sins. It was important that John publicly wash the Lamb of God and fulfill the requirements of the law, proving to Israel that the Lamb that was soon to be offered was spotless and without blemish. There are four baptisms in this chapter: 1) John baptising with water, 2) Father God baptising Jesus with the power of heaven, 3) Jesus will baptise believers with the same Holy Spirit, 4) the baptism of fire. The Lord Jesus has fulfilled every righteousness for us to be face to face in His glory, as the Lamb of God. Amen!
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