Luke intended for his audience to understand it as an avian sign. Jesus was Yahweh’s choice to rule the world. Luke presented Jesus’ baptism as an inauguration of a different kind of king—one confirmed by a dove, not an eagle. As such, this text is extremely political in its content and context. Since the other gospel writers did not include this phrase in their narratives, possibly Luke used “in bodily form” as a literary device to convey to his readers that Caesar had a challenger.154 If so, Luke