Theme: Witnessing God's Word

Exegetical note
John's version of Jesus' baptism is, at best, inferential, but the witness of the Baptizer to Jesus is direct and unambiguous, the result of both visual and aural evidence: he sees the Spirit descend "like a dove" and rest upon Jesus; and he hears the very voice of God. The Baptizer's (as well as the Evangelist's!) testimony, therefore, is unequivocal: "this is the Son of God" and "the Lamb of God who takes away the world's sin."

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