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NASB | Luke 3:21 ¶ Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 3:21 ¶ Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, the [visible] heaven was opened, [Matt 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; John 1:32] |
Subject: Jesus at the Jordan, the Messiah comes! |
Bible Note: Jesus at the Jordan, the Messiah comes! Jesus responding to the call of John, God's prophet, goes out to the Jordan to be baptized, not because He is a sinner, but because the He wishes to be identified wth his people as Isaiah prophecied. He was innocent and yet was "numbered with transgressors (Is 53:12)in order to "bear their iniquities" (Is 53:11). But the Messiah is God's annointed. In the very same act which identifies Jesus with his people whom He has come to save, He is annointed by the Father, with the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:21-22; Acts 10:38; Isaiah 42:1). Messiah in Hebrew and Christ in Greek mean "annointed". "The Lord's annointed" was a title for the kings of Israel (cf 1 Samuel 10:6). Jesus, the Messiah is in the line of David, the annointed king of Israel. "Then Samuel took the horn and annointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward (1 Samuel 16:13). Jesus too was annointed "in the midst of his brothers" who were being baptized at the Jordan and with whom He is identifying Himself. Luke drives home the connection between Jesus and David by placing his geneology of Jesus immediatley after Jesus' baptism. In fact he goes even further by identifying Jesus with all mankind by tracing his geneology back to "Adam, the son of God" (Luke 3:38). The whole familiy is all gathered and the Exodus is about to begin. |
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