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13 Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized there by John. 14 John didn’t want to do it.

“This isn’t proper,” he said. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you.”

15 But Jesus said, “Please do it, for I must do all that is right.”[a] So then John baptized him.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:15 do all that is right, literally, “fulfill all righteousness.”

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