Matthew 3:13
“Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.”
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Related Verses
“And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.”
“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,”
“And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;”
“Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,”
“And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.”