From the general features of the remarkable ministry of the Baptist, summed up as it is for us in the preceding verses, we now pass to the most notable instance of baptism performed by him. This was the baptism of Jesus. We are expressly told that it was when the movement under John had become national, when all the people had submitted to the rite, with, of course, the Pharisaic exceptions already noticed (Luke 7:30), that Jesus appeared at the Jordan to claim the rite too.
Jesus had just been assured of his Sonship, according to St. Luke's history, and now the evangelist interposes between the baptism and the temptation the genealogy of his human nature, carrying it upwards, step by step, to God.
Series: The Acts of Christ And The Apostles
Speaker: George Mattackal
Scripture: Luke 3 : 21-38
Notes: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtZn-btopJYtmyA4TCnug5maN64Y?e=wKDgEA
