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The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with...

as a dove and remain on him” and “I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One” (John 1:32, 34). While John’s Gospel does not explicitly record Jesus’s baptism, John’s testimony accords with the scene recorded in Matthew 3:13–17; Mark 1:9–11, and Luke 3:21–22. The baptism is also a testimony of the Spirit, since he descended on Jesus and remained on him. In this sense, Jesus’s baptism represents a clear moment of “testimony,” which fits the context of 1 John 5:6–9 very well. Putting all
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