Matthew 3:14–15
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3:14But John21 tried to prevent22 him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?” 3:15So Jesus replied23 to him, “Let it happen now,24 for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John25 yielded26 to him.
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- 21 The earliest (א* B sa) lack the name of John here (“but he tried to prevent him,” instead of “but John tried to prevent him”). It is, however, clearly implied (and is thus supplied in translation). Although the longer reading has excellent support (𝔓96 א1 C Ds L W 0233 0250 f1, 13 33 𝔐 lat[t] sy mae bo), it looks to be a motivated and predictable reading: Scribes apparently could not resist adding this clarification.
- 22 The imperfect verb has been translated conatively.
- 23 Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.”
- 24 Grk “Permit now.”
- 25 Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 26 Or “permitted him.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
But John tried to stop him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”
Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John allowed him to be baptized.
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NLTNew Living Translation
But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?”
But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.” So John agreed to baptize him.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it now, for in this way it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he permitted him.
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KJV 1900King James Version
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
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