Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 3:15

15. And Jesus answering said unto him, suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Iesus saith unto him. Suffer it now to be so. The Question is not whether thou or I be more Excellent: It is thy Duty to Baptize for my Father hath sent thee to Baptize. It is my Pleasure and Duty to be Obedient to my Father, whose Will I know tho it be hidden from thee. Baptism is a new Law of the Gospel-Church, of which tho I be the Head, yet I must be conformed to the Members of it, concerning which my Fathers Will is, that they should be Baptized with Water, as well as with the Holy Ghost, besides that, I am to put an end to the Jewish Typical Circumcision, and to put a new Face upon the Church, by Instituting another Sacrament of Initiation. It is therefore both Iust and Equal that I should be Baptized, (tho not for those ends for which others, that are my Members, are Baptized, not for Remission of sins, but) for the fulfilling of all Righteousness, in obeying my Fathers Will [So he suffered him] he that erreth through ignorance will correct his Error upon better Information. We may learn from this Example of Christ. That being Baptized with the Holy Ghost, will excuse none for Contempt, or Neglect of Baptism by Water, because it is the revealed Will of God, that all the Members of his Church should come under that Ordinance, so as there is a fulfilling of Righteousness in our Case, as well as in Christ's, tho in a different measure.