• βαπτισθεὶς δὲ — SBLGNT
• βαπτισθεὶς δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• Καὶ βαπτισθεὶς — Robinson-Pierpont

• εὐθὺς ἀνέβη — SBLGNT
• εὐθὺς ἀνέβη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• ἀνέβη εὐθὺς — Robinson-Pierpont

• ἠνεῴχθησαν — SBLGNT
• ἠνεῴχθησαν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• + αὐτῷ — Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27

• πνεῦμα — SBLGNT
• πνεῦμα — Westcott-Hort
• τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont

• περιστερὰν — SBLGNT
• περιστερὰν — Westcott-Hort
• + καὶ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont

§535Jesus' public life begins with his baptism by John in the Jordan.228 John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins".229 A crowd of sinners230 - tax collectors and soldiers, Pharisees and Sadducees, and prostitutes - come to be baptized by him. "Then Jesus appears." the Baptist hesitates, but Jesus insists and receives baptism. Then the Holy Spirit, in the f…

§536The baptism of Jesus is on his part the acceptance and inauguration of his mission as God's suffering Servant. He allows himself to be numbered among sinners; he is already "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world".232 Already he is anticipating the "baptism" of his bloody death.233 Already he is coming to "fulfil all righteousness", that is, he is submitting himse…

§701The dove. At the end of the flood, whose symbolism refers to Baptism, a dove released by Noah returns with a fresh olive-tree branch in its beak as a sign that the earth was again habitable.58 When Christ comes up from the water of his baptism, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, comes down upon him and remains with him.59 The Spirit comes down and remains in the purified h…

One and the same God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is He whom the prophets foretold, and who was declared by the Gospel. Proof of this, at the outset, from St. Matthew's Gospel. 1. This, therefore, having been clearly demonstrated here (and it shall yet be so still more clearly), that neither the prophets, nor the apostles, nor the Lord Christ in His own person, did acknowl…

2. Then he suffers Him. And 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. For inasmuch as many supposed that John was greater than He, because John had been brought up all his time in the wilderness, and was son of a chief priest, and was c…

1. If any one unpracticed in the art undertake to work a mine, he will get no gold, but confounding all aimlessly and together, will undergo a labor unprofitable and pernicious: so also they who understand not the method of Holy Scripture, nor search out its peculiarities and laws, but go over all its points carelessly and in one manner, will mix the gold with earth, and never …

1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…

Were we freed from sin by Christ's Passion? Were we thereby delivered from the power of the devil? Were we freed thereby from our debt of punishment? Were we thereby reconciled with God? Was heaven's gate opened to us thereby? Did Christ derive exaltation from it? Article 1. Whether we were delivered from sin through Christ's Passion? Objection 1. It would seem that we were not…

Q. Since there is but one God, why do you speak of three: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? A. Because that is how God has revealed himself in his Word: these three distinct persons are one, true, eternal God.

Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with Him in His death and resurrection, of his being engrafted into Him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in newness of life. Those who do actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and ob…

The water of baptism is not ordinary water — it is water over which the Spirit of God has moved, just as the Spirit moved over the waters at creation. Ambrose teaches that the waters were barren and lifeless until the Spirit descended, and so the baptismal font is barren until the Spirit is invoked. What the Spirit accomplished in creation, He now accomplishes in the new creati…