Matthew 3:17

“The Spirit who had hovered over the waters of the first creation descended then on the Christ as a prelude of the new creation, and the Father revealed Jesus as his "beloved Son."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 3:16-17.

“The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism by John was the sign that this was he who was to come, the Messiah, the Son of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 3:13-17; Jn 1:33-34.

“The Gospels report that at two solemn moments, the Baptism and the Transfiguration of Christ, the voice of the Father designates Jesus his "beloved Son".” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 3:17; cf. 17:5.

“Then the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, comes upon Jesus and a voice from heaven proclaims, "This is my beloved Son."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 3:13-17.

“The Messiah's characteristics are revealed above all in the "Servant songs."” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Isa 42:1-9; cf. Mt 12:18-21; Jn 1:32-34; then cf. Isa 49:1-6; cf. Mt 3:17; Lk 2:32; finally cf. Isa 50:4-10 and Isa 52:13-53:12.

“…it should be said that He did not really “behold Satan as lightning fall from heaven;” that He did not really hear the Father’s voice testifying of Himself; or that He was deceived in touching Peter’s wife’s mother; or that the fragrance of the ointment which He afterwards smelled was different from that which He…” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“…knowledge foolish, and confirming the words of His Son?”—as, for instance, when He said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“Never is Christ without water: if, that is, He is Himself baptized in water; inaugurates in water the first rudimentary displays of His power, when invited to the nuptials; invites the thirsty, when He makes a discourse, to His own…” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 13–17.

“Accordingly, the voice from heaven which proclaimed Him to be the Son of God, in the words, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” is not stated to have been audible to the multitudes, as this Jew of Celsus supposed.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“…that He was not till He was made? or who is there, who to the God in whom he has put faith, refuses to give credit, when He says, ‘This is My beloved Son,’ on the pretence that He is not a Son, but a creature? rather, such madness would rouse an universal indignation.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“And if this be unseemly and irreligious, when the Father says, ‘This is My Beloved Son,’ and when the Son says that God is His own Father, it follows that what is partaken is not external, but from the essence of the Father.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“But he is not in fact thus referred to; but the Father shews Him to be His own proper and only Son, saying, ‘Thou art My Son,’ and ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 7; Matt. iii. 17.

“…the Word was with God;’ and ‘Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God;’ and ‘This is My beloved Son;’ and ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.’” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17; xvi. 16.

“…see light;’ and the Apostle writes, ‘Who being the Radiance of Glory,’ and again, ‘Who being in the form of God,’ and, ‘Who is the Image of the invisible God.’” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17; Ps. xlv. 1; John i. 1; Ps. xxxvi. 9; Heb. i. 3; Phil. ii. 26; Col. i. 15.

“For ‘Only-begotten’ and ‘Well-beloved’ are the same, as in the words ‘This is My Well-beloved Son.’” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 6; xciii. 1; xlv. 1; Matt. iii. 17.

“Him the Father pointed out both in Jordan and on the Mount, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17, and xvii. 5.

“(Matt. 3:17)” — the author cites it

“The Father spake with a loud voice from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“For at the time of His Baptism addressing Him, and saying, This is My Son, He did not say, “This has now become My Son,” but, This is My Son; that He might make manifest, that even before the operation of Baptism He was a Son.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“For this devil, when [Jesus] went up from the river Jordan, at the time when the voice spake to Him, ‘Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten Thee,’ is recorded in the memoirs of the apostles to have come to Him and tempted Him, even so far as to say to Him, ‘Worship me;’ and Christ answered him, ‘Get thee…” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 7; Matt. iii. 17.

“It is also written in the Gospel, ‘This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased;’ and in the Psalms the Saviour says, ‘The Lord said unto Me, Thou art My Son.’” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17

“The Father loves the Son, and you anxiously examine His Person; the Father is well pleased in Him, you, joining the Jews, look upon Him with an evil eye; the Father knows the Son, and you join the heathen in reviling Him.” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17; S. Mark i. 11; S. Luke iii. 22.

“Can men indeed be loved by God as the Son is, in Whom the Father is well-pleased?” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17.

“And that you might know that he spoke of the coming down of Jesus, he added that He declared His Christ to men, for in His baptism He declared Him, saying: “Thou art My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17.

“Is there, then, here any room left for doubt, when the Father clearly calls from heaven in the Gospel narrative, and says: “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased”?” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17.

“Secondly, He hath spoken to the Son when standing here, “Thou art My beloved Son.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“…to wit from the river Jordan, where upon the Lord, on His baptism, when the Holy Ghost descended, there sounded a voice from Heaven, “This is My beloved Son.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“…of them puts the saying thus, “In whom I am well pleased,” the second thus, “In Thee I am well pleased;” and the third thus, “In Thee it has pleased me;”—if you ask which of these different modes represents what was actually expressed by the voice, you may fix on whichever you will, provided only that you…” — editor's note: In te complacuit mihi. Matt. iii. 16, 17; Mark i. 10, 11; Luke iii. 22. [The Greek mss., of most weight, show no variation between Mark and Luke in the last…

“…also in that voice, when Jesus appeared in glory on the mount before the three disciples; and in that when the dove descended upon Him at His baptism; and in that where He cried to the Father concerning His own glorification and it was answered Him, “I have both glorified, and will glorify again.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17

“He answered, “Suffer it to be so now, that all righteousness may be fulfilled”), when He was baptized then, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in the form of a Dove: and then a Voice from on high followed, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“…Spirit in form of a dove descended and rested upon Him, and the Father’s voice was heard from the skies, “Thou art My beloved Son: in Thee I am well pleased?”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17.

“So too when He came to the baptism of John, His forerunner, lest He should not be known through the veil of flesh which covered His Divinity, the Father’s voice thundering from the sky, said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17.

“Without the power of the Word the Father’s voice uttered from the sky would not have said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:” and without the reality of the flesh John would not have been able to point to Him and say: “Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him that beareth away the sins of the world.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17, and Bright’s note 5.

“The Saviour Himself does not preach the kingdom of heaven until by His baptismal immersion He has cleansed the Jordan.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 13, 17.

“In the first place He was made an unction, and being inseparably present was with the very flesh of the Lord, according to that which is written, “Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on Him, the same is” “my beloved Son;” and “Jesus of Nazareth” whom “God anointed with the Holy Ghost.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 17.

“And behold, a voice from heaven, saying: This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 16, 17.

“The voice too which was sent from God not in riddles or figures had moved him, when it said: “Thou art My beloved Son, in Thee I am well pleased.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 17.

“Repeatedly the Father cries from heaven, This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased.” — editor's note: St. Matt. iii. 17; xvii. 5. Again in § 23 Hilary says that these words were often repeated.

“His words are:—This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.” — editor's note: St. Matt. iii. 17.

“…ratified in His baptism this intimation of His inherent Sonship was heard as a voice bore witness from Heaven:—Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee.” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 8, cf. St. Matt. iii. 17, &c.

“Yet I remember that a voice was heard from Heaven, which said, This is My beloved Son, in Whom I have been well pleased; hear ye Him.” — editor's note: St. Matt. xvii. 5, the occasion of the Transfiguration. But the context shews that Hilary is referring to the voice heard at the baptism, where all the three…

“Nor are we left in doubt how He was thus anointed with the Spirit of God and with power, when we listen to the Father’s voice, as it spoke when He came up out of the Jordan, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee.” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 7. The last words occur in neither in St. Matt. (iii. 17), nor St. Mark (i. 11), nor St. Luke (iii. 22) : but there is evidence of the existence of…

“This is why Jesus was baptized, and received testimony from above, and fasted, and was tempted, and overcame him who had overcome.” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 13, 17.

“…of purification Who taketh away the sin of the world) and the heavens cleft asunder, and witness borne to him by the Spirit That is of one nature with Him; you shall see Him tempted and conquering and served by Angels, and healing every sickness and every disease, and giving life to the dead (O that He would give…” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 13, 17.

“It is generally called Theophania, and the Gospel in the Liturgy is S. Matthew iii. 13–17.” — the author cites it

“The words, “Behold my servant,” may be referred to the place in which the Father had said above, “This is my Son.” [Matt 3:17] The words, “I will put my Spirit upon him,” is referred to the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Lord at His baptism; “He shall declare judgment to…” — the author cites it

Not as before by Moses and the Prophets, neither in type or figure did the Father teach that the Son should come, but openly shewed Him to be already come, “This is my Son.”

Or, that from these things thus fulfilled upon Christ, we might learn that after the washing of water the Holy Spirit also descends on us from the heavenly gates, on us also is shed an unction of heavenly glory, and…

The mystery of the Trinity is shewn in this baptism. the Lord is baptized; the Spirit descends in the shape of a dove; the voice of the Father is heard giving testimony to the Son.

And no wonder that the mystery of the Trinity is not wanting to the Lord’s laver, when even our laver contains the sacrament of the Trinity. The Lord willed to shew in His own case what He was after to ordain for men.

Though Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one nature, yet do thou hold most firmly that They be Three Persons; that it is the Father alone who said, “this is my beloved Son;” the Son alone over whom that voice of the…

Here are deeds of the whole Trinity. In their own substance indeed Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are One without interval of either place or time; but in my mouth they are three separate words, and cannot be…

He witnesses that He is His Son not in name merely, but in very kindred. Sons of God are we many of us; but not as He is a Son, a proper and true Son, in verity, not in estimation, by birth, not adoption.

The Father loves the Son, but as a father should, not as a master may love a servant; and that as an own Son, not an adopted; therefore He adds, “in whom I am well-pleased.”

Or if it be referred to the human nature of Christ, the sense is, I am pleased in Him, whom alone I have found without sin. Or according to another reading, “It hath pleased me” to appoint Him, by whom to perform…

These words Mark and Luke give in the same way; in the words of the voice that came from Heaven, their expression varies though the sense is the same. For both the words as Matthew gives them, “This is my beloved…

“And a voice (came) from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 16, 17.

Matthew 3:17 and 2 Peter 1:17 share the same wording (10 words).

Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 103.

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Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 12:14–20 (7) (Catena Aurea).

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Cited together in Bede on John 8:13–18 (Catena Aurea).

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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 103 and 1 other place.

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Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 5.

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Cited together in Against the Arians I.4.

Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.

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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit II.6.

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