Commentary
“Beloved
Son”
In
describing Jesus' baptism, Luke includes three details: heaven was
opened, the Holy Spirit descended, and the voice from heaven spoke to
Jesus, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
By
coming into the world, Jesus opened heaven for all humanity. Now, at
our baptism, the Holy Spirit descends upon us. As we are baptized
into the death of Jesus, we rise with him and become sons and
daughters of God. The Father speaks to each of us the same words,
“You are my beloved Son/Daughter; with you I am well pleased.”
Later
on, as Jesus begins his public ministry, he will speak of how, with
the Holy Spirit, who is “upon” him, he will live out his mission
as the Son of God. [1]
In two weeks, we will hear this proclamation from Luke 4: 18-19, “The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he
has
anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to
proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to
let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the
Lord.”
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