Graphic Bible · Scene 16 of 17

John supports the fully clothed Jesus during baptism in the Jordan.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Matthew 3:16

Baptism and the Descending Spirit

John’s Call and Jesus’s Baptism · Matthew 3

Story guide: The sequence separates baptism, rising from the water, and the opened heavens with the Spirit descending like a dove.

Open this scene in the reader →

16And when Jesus was baptized, he immediately came up from the water. And behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon him.

Step through the story beside the Scripture itself. About the People’s Open Bible