the Old Testament (1:2–3). There is also a testimony from John the Baptist, seen as the prophet promised in the Old Testament who would precede the coming of the Messiah—God’s anointed who delivers Israel (1:4–8). After John, if he is properly regarded in Old Testament terms, the next will be the Messiah. This is precisely what the voice from heaven, during John’s baptism of Jesus, makes clear. The ‘You are my Son’ of 1:11 provides the closing bracket of the parenthesis which began with ‘the Son