But this, too, is edifying: to stand before a text full of dazzling light, hovering clouds and a heavenly voice, a text that we can not explain fully or consume homiletically, a text that is simply there night and day, offering disturbing consolation, a text before which we live out our faith in awe and praise. (religion-online.org)
Then, with the heavenly voice at his baptism still ringing in his ears, Jesus heard an insidious whisper, «If you are the Son of God.» (religion-online.org)
Whether Jesus himself received or discovered his mission at the moment of his baptism, as is implied in the Christian story of the heavenly voice, is something we do not know. (religion-online.org)