 | John C. Purdy - 1993 - 132 pages
...out of the water, he saw the heavens lorn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And 11 a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased. " (Mark 1 :9-l 1) Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit... | |
 | William S. Kurz - 1993 - 276 pages
...baptized [scene 1 ) and Jesus also had been baptized [scene 2) and was praying [scene 3], heaven was opened and the holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove [scene 4]" (Luke 3:21-22a, RNAB; my bracketed insertions). Reader-response criticism generally presumes... | |
 | William L. Holladay - 1995 - 412 pages
...Jesus in Mark 1:11 (and parallels in Matt. 3:17 and Luke 3:22), a voice from heaven was heard to say, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased," a citation of Ps. 2:7.41 Again, in Matt. 13:35 the evangelist explains Jesus' teaching in parables... | |
 | Margarette O'Toole - 1992 - 108 pages
...like a sign that there are no barriers between God and people any more now that Jesus is on earth. The 'Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove'. This is the sign that God has specially anointed Jesus. It means that Jesus is God's favourite: the... | |
 | John H. Leith - 1993 - 376 pages
...not mention the birth narratives, declares the significance of Jesus in the record of his baptism, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased" (Mark 1:11). The Gospel of John likewise has no mention of the birth of Jesus but accounts for the... | |
 | Paul McGlasson - 1993 - 196 pages
...his transfiguration — the Gospels attest a divine expression of pleasure in the person of Jesus: "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased." According to the Gospel of John (chs. 14-17), the Father loves the Son with a love that is eternal,... | |
 | Bruce B. Barton - 1994 - 550 pages
..."the Spirit descending like a dove." was probably visible to all the people. for Luke recounts that "the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove" tLuke 3:22 NRSV 'i. The descent of the Spirit. and the dove itself. represented to 1srael God's mighty... | |
 | Charles B. Cousar - 1994 - 648 pages
...that her child will be called "Son of God" (1:35). At Jesus' baptism, the heavenly voice announces, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased" (3:22). The genealogy, which immediately follows the baptism, culminates with the disclosure that Jesus... | |
 | Phillip J. Cunningham - 1995 - 196 pages
...up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove '0 on him. And a voice came from heaven, 'You are my Son, the Beloved; with you 1 am well pleased.'" (1:9-l 1) The vision and the voice are for Jesus alone. 1t is here that he is... | |
 | Allen Black - 1997 - 308 pages
...Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. "And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased." In this paragraph Jesus is introduced into the story in a... | |
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Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased. 
