Baptism of Jesus.
The time had now come for Jesus to enter upon His ministry, to be inducted into His office by a public ceremony: Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
He now came forth from His concealment, while John was at the very height of his evangelistic career. He came down to John, not like the Pharisees and Sadducees, who really all the while rejected God's counsel against themselves, Luke 7:30, but in an open, friendly manner, to enter into amicable relations with him, and incidentally to receive Baptism at his hands. So far as His coming in itself was concerned, there was no difference between His desire for Baptism and that of the multitudes.