World English Bible
Luke 3:21
“Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,”
Verse in context — Luke 3
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but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
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added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
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Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
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and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.
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Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
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