And Jesus answering said unto him,
Permit it to be so now: for thus it is fitting for us to
fulfill all righteousness.
Then he permitted him.
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Jerome
AD 420
Also that by being Himself baptized, He might sanction the baptism of John.
Beautifully said is that “now,” to show that as Christ was baptized with waterby John, so John must be baptized by Christ with the Spirit. Or, suffer now that I who have taken the form of a servant should fulfil all that low estate; otherwise know that in the day of judgment thou must be baptized with my baptism. Or, the Lord says, ‘Suffer this now; I have also another baptism wherewithal I must be baptized; thou baptizest Me with water, that I may baptize thee for Me with thy own blood.’.
“Righteousness;” but he adds neither ‘of the Law;’ nor ‘of nature,’ that we may understand it of both.
