Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
Jesus being baptized, and praying ...  Many have pondered the reasons why Jesus was baptized; and among reasons that might have entered into his submission to that rite are the following: (1) The reason that he himself gave, "thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness"  (Matthew 3:15), indicates that it would have been unbecoming, even of the sinless Christ, to have withheld obedience to God's commandment.  The message for all men in this is plain.