But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he consented.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.
he who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”
For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”