Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the following reasons: baptism is for the forgiveness of sin, yet Jesus is God’s son and ...

This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith on Jan. 12.

The baptism of Jesus was a part of His fulfilling all the Mosaic laws. His parents had presented Him as an infant in the ...

"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted forty days and ...

Matthew 28:19-20 Some Christians claim ... invalid since an infant is too young to willfully accept Jesus. To address these issues on baptism, we need to begin with the words of Jesus recorded ...

The Baptism of the Lord Jesus teaches us something about the theology of geography. There are many places where water for baptism could be found in the land of Israel. Why was Jesus baptized by ...

On January 19 (January 6, old style), the Orthodox Church commemorates the event described in all four Gospels of Matthew, Luke, John and Mark — the baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of the ...

Matthew and Luke depend on Mark ... [In] a classic example, Luke tells us about the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Now, if we read elsewhere in the Gospel of Luke [in] ...