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The visit of the Magi, the Sermon on the Mount, the Great Commission: these are only a few of the well-known passages in Matthew’s Gospel. Yet it begins with a list of unknown names and apparently irrelevant ‘begettings’. The early church may have placed Matthew first in the New Testament because it provides a Christian perspective on the relation between the church and the Jews, an issue that is...

13. Matthew’s account focuses on the encounter between Jesus and John, and on the personal experience of Jesus, so that it might suggest a purely private baptism. But the setting (see vv. 5–6) and the wording of Luke’s account (Luke 3:21) indicate that Jesus was one among many who were baptized by John, whether by a personal act or by self-immersion together under John’s direction (so Jeremias, NTT, p. 51). To be baptized indicates that Jesus deliberately chose
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