Matthew Chapter 3

Short summary:
This chapter gives us a lot of information about "John the baptist" what he eats (grashopper and wild honey), wears (robe made of camel hair) and does (baptize).
He comes across as a odd character but he is the one who firstly mentions the power of Jesus. And he ist very clenching. For example he dares and has no shame to critizice the Pharisee and Sadducce.
The second part of Chapter 3 is about Jesus`s baptism. Jesus is baptized by "John the baptist", although John says that he is undeserving to do that because Jesus is God`s son. But Jesus wants him to baptize him. After Jesus`s baptize the Holy Ghost( shown as a white dove) ascends from heaven to Jesus. A great voice from heaven says that "Jesus is God`s lovely son and that He loves him".

(hope I have translated the verses right^^)

My Analyse:
Although John is shown a little bit oddly for us today and lives without any belongings except his robe, he has got a great soul. His functions are diverse. Baptizing is his job, but he also can critizicing people and telling them that Jesus will come (prophetic talent?). It implies that he receives a lot of gifts from above.
Treating Jesus as a king but himself as a useless person he doesn`t dare to baptize Jesus which you can imply in chapter 3 line 15. But Jesus doesn`t act as a king although he is much more bigger and greater than a king. He allowes John to baptize him which implies that Jesus loves all of us. He isn`t a cruel king, no he is fair merciful. The Holy Ghost shown as a dove comes over Jesus and a voice from heaven calling him God`s son implies that Jesus is in fact our saviour and our messias which refers to chapter 3 line 2 (Tut Buße, denn das Himmelreich is nahe herangekommen). The ariving of Jesus means that the ending time will come soon und the people should be prepared for it.

My resume:
We can be very happy that we have Jesus a fair and lovely God. It doesn`t matter how we look or what origin we have he accepts us. He is like a father to us. He doesn`t despise us. No he loves us like a mother loves his newborn baby. We cannot imagine how big his love is.