Sentences with phrase «heard at the baptism»
The voice from heaven heard at the baptism of Jesus has been confirmed.
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But instead of the story of Jesus and John at the Jordan we hear Paul addressing the Corinthians in an exasperated tone, asking them to consider what their own baptisms mean.
The Fourth Gospel, which ignores both the baptism and the temptation, says that on the day after John's testimony to Jesus at the Jordan he repeated it in the hearing of two of his disciples (In 1:35 - 42), one of whom was Andrew of Bethsaida in Galilee, and that Andrew thereupon brought his brother Simon to Jesus, who named him forthwith «The Rock.»
Most of us are living as the disciples at Ephesus who missed receiving the Holy Spirit because they were baptized into John's baptism and had never even heard that there was a Holy Spirit (Acts 19aff.).
The first reason they suggest that a person might believe in God is that if someone is brought up a Catholic then: «to keep the promises they made at the baptism, the parents would probably teach them prayers... they would say prayers to God thanking him for looking after them and so it would seem natural for them to believe in God... at church, they would hear people talking about God and assume that God exists.»
The descent of the Spirit at his baptism can be so understood; but, as we have noted, the accounts differ in such ways that it is impossible to tell whether the Spirit was seen and the voice heard by Jesus alone or by the bystanders also.