He saw the heavens opened.—Better, as in the margin, rent open, Saint Mark’s language here, as …

Pseudo-Jerome: Mark the Evangelist, like a hart longing for the fountains of water, leaps forward over places both smo…

Mark seems to suggest that only Jesus saw “heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending,” though he may have been so focusing on Jesus’ experie…

And straightway coming up out of the water
Not John, as many think; though it was true of him, that he came up out o…

Christ's baptism was his first public appearance, after he had long lived unknown. How much hidden worth is there, which in this world is not known…