Then cometh Jesus] Mark 1:9. Luke 3. 21. To wit, when John, by preaching and baptizing, had prepared the people to receive him. from Galilee to Jordan] He might have sent for John to come into Galilee to baptize him; but he comes to him, that he might more publikely enter into his ministery. unto John] He shews his humility, in coming to him. to be baptized of him] He needed not baptism, having no sin in him; but, as he took on him the similitude of sinfull flesh, so would he take the sacrament also of purgation and remission of sins. As, by being circumcised, he declared that he was the Saviour of such as believed in the old Testament; so, by being baptized, that he is the Saviour of us in the new. Hereby also he confirms Johns baptism, and sanctifies ours.