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Jesus Christ and John the Baptist
How Jesus Christ and John the Baptist are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Jesus Christ and John the Baptist met.
Jesus came to John at the Jordan to be baptized. John protested that he had need to be baptized of Jesus, then baptized him at his word.
I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Matthew 3:14, King James Version
Suffer it to be so now
Matthew 3:15, King James Version
Where they cross: Matthew 3:13-16
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Matthew 3:13-16
13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16And 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:
King James Version