Matthew 3:15

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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.

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

Then I said, “See, I have come;
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.

The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness,
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.

Both were righteous in God’s sight, living without blame according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,”

Jesus told them.

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

Instead He emptied Himself
by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man
in His external form,

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

For you were called to this,
because Christ also suffered for you,
leaving you an example,
so that you should follow in His steps.

The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked.

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.