Here is a link to an article I wrote a few years ago dealing with Matthew’s story of Jesus’ baptism. It was published in the Bulletin of Biblical Research.
http://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/BBR_1999_03_Capes_MatthewBaptism.pdf
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Here is a link to an article I wrote a few years ago dealing with Matthew’s story of Jesus’ baptism. It was published in the Bulletin of Biblical Research.
http://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/BBR_1999_03_Capes_MatthewBaptism.pdf