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John Baptizes Jesus

21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. While he was praying, heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love. I am well pleased with you.”

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The Baptism of Jesus

21 Now it happened that when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while he[a] was praying, heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 3:21 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was praying”)