Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
and praying; after he was baptized, for the coming down of the Spirit upon him, as man, to anoint, and qualify him for his office he was now about to enter on publicly: and for success in it, and for a testimony from heaven, that he was the Son of God, and true Messiah: