Now when all the people were baptized - That came from several parts to John for this purpose,...and praying; after He was baptized, for the coming down of the Spirit upon Him, as man, to anoint, and qualify Him for His office He was now about to enter on publicly: and for success in it, and for a testimony from heaven, that He was the Son of God, and true Messiah.
3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art My beloved Son; in Thee I am well pleased.
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape - the heavens were opened to Him; the airy heaven was materially and really opened, parted, rent, or cloven asunder, which made way for the visible descent of the Holy Ghost in a bodily shape.
like a dove upon Him - either in the form of a dove, or this corporeal form, whatever it was, descended and hovered on him as a dove does:
and a voice came from heaven - at the same time the Holy Ghost came down upon Him; which said, Thou art My beloved Son, in Thee I am well pleased: and was the voice of the Father; ..... It is observable, that the three voices from heaven.
like a dove upon Him - either in the form of a dove, or this corporeal form, whatever it was, descended and hovered on him as a dove does:
and a voice came from heaven - at the same time the Holy Ghost came down upon Him; which said, Thou art My beloved Son, in Thee I am well pleased: and was the voice of the Father; ..... It is observable, that the three voices from heaven.
Observe, all the three voices from heaven, by which the Father bare witness to the Son, were pronounced while He was praying, or soon after. The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and there came a voice from heaven, from God the Father, from the excellent glory.
Thus was a proof of the Three Persons in the Godhead,
given at the baptism of Christ.
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