matthew-3:16,-matthew-3:17

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 3:16-17

THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT‘And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ Matthew 3:16-Esther : I. Why did Christ need this manifestation of the Spirit?( a) That witness might be borne to His Sonship. It was to assure, not Himself indeed, but others, of His Sonship.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:1-17

SECTION 2. THE BIRTH AND RISE OF JESUS THE MESSIAH (THE CHRIST) (1:18-4:25). In this section, following the introduction, Matthew reveals the greatness of Jesus the Christ. He will now describe the unique birth of Jesus, the homage paid to Him by important Gentiles, His exile and protection in Egypt followed by His subsequent bringing forth out of Egypt to reside in lowly Nazareth, His being drenched with the Holy Spirit as God’s beloved Son and Servant, His temptations in the wilderness which... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:11-17

The Coming One (3:11-17). John’s large-scale ministry having been established in these few verses, Matthew now turns his attention to Jesus. We do not know how long John had been preaching before this incident now described occurred, but that he had a widespread and effective ministry, possibly over a number of years, Josephus also testifies. What we do know from external sources is that his ministry was so effective and so far reaching that disciples of John were found around the world for... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:16

‘And Jesus when he was baptised, went up immediately from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him,’ Having been baptised by John, Jesus came out of the water, and immediately ‘the Heavens were opened’. Nothing visible would have been seen which was being described in these words. The opening of the Heavens was a way of speaking of God acting from Heaven. God as it were opens the door of Heaven so that Heaven may... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:13-17

Matthew 3:13-Esther : . The Baptism of Jesus ( Mark 1:9-1 Kings : *, Luke 3:21 f.). Matthew 3:14 f. (Mt. only) meets the objection to the acceptance by a sinless Jesus of a baptism connected with repentance (p. 661). Jesus maintains (“ suffer it now” ) that a temporary necessity must be acknowledged. Until the new revelation is ready, all righteousness, i.e. Divine ordinances, must be duly observed. For John’ s sense of unworthiness cf. Luke 5:8 (Peter). The message of the voice (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:16-17

This story is also related Mark 1:10,Mark 1:11; Luke 3:21. Luke saith that Jesus praying, the heaven was opened. Mark saith, cloven asunder. It is most probable that the opening of the heavens mentioned (though possibly far more glorious) bare a proportion to that opening of the heavens which we often see in a time of great lightning, when the air seemeth to divide to make the fuller and clearer way for the light. Unto him; that is, unto John. And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 3:13-17

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 3:13. Jesus … baptised.—He received the rite as ratifying the mission of the great forerunner, and He also received it as the beautiful symbol of moral purification, and the humble inauguration of a ministry which came not to destroy the law but to fulfil (Farrar).Matthew 3:14. Forbad, διεκώλυεν is emphatic, and implies that John interposed strenuously to hinder Him. The Baptist’s words imply that he had some definite knowledge of the character of Jesus. John 1:33 seems to... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 3:16

Jesus For the first time the Trinity, foreshadowed in many ways in the O.T., is fully manifested. The Spirit descends upon the Son, and at the same moment the Father's voice is heard from heaven. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 3:1-17

Chapter ThreeIn those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea ( Matthew 3:1 ).Now we have the silent years of Christ. We are jumping now from the return to Nazareth to the beginning of His public ministry. There are some twenty-eight to twenty-nine years that nothing is recorded. Now in the Apocrypha, there are books in the Apocrypha that report to have the stories of the early life and the boyhood of Jesus: the healing of little birds with broken wings and fanciful... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 3:1-17

Matthew 3:1 . In those days came John the Baptist. When the time of the seventy weeks was fulfilled, when the sceptre was departed from Judah, and when all the east, according to Suetonius, expected one to arise in Judea who should be the ruler of all things. It was when Tiberius entered the fifteenth year of his reign, that the preacher of the desert opened his commission. Preaching in the wilderness of Judea. John had a special revelation from heaven, of all the particulars of his... read more

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 3:16-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:1-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:11-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:16

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 3:13-17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:16-17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 3:13-17

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 3:16

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 3:1-17

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 3:1-17

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