Cross References

Matthew 3:15

A Conservative Version

But having answered, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows him.

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Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.

For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do.

It pleased LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.

And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.

And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do things pleasing to him.

For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

But John was preventing him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and thou come to me?