Matthew 3:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

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  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
  • John 8:29 : 29 and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'
  • John 13:7-9 : 7 Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;' 8 Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;' 9 Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.'
  • John 13:15 : 15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
  • John 15:10 : 10 if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;
  • Phil 2:7-8 : 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps, 22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth, 23 who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously, 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
  • Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,
  • Ps 40:7-8 : 7 Then said I, `Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me, 8 To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law `is' within my heart.

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    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

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  • Matt 3:16-17
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    16And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him,

    17and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, `This is My Son -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

  • Mark 1:8-11
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    8I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

    9And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;

    10and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;

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    21And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

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    22After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

  • Luke 3:12-13
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    12And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?'

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  • Matt 3:5-6
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    5Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan,

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