In connection with Luke’s record of the baptism and the same anointing by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, we read, “Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age.” 11Luke 3:23. GSAM 61.4
After our Lord’s long fast of forty days, and the fierce temptations of the devil in the wilderness, which immediately followed his baptism, he “came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.... The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.... And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” 12Luke 4:16-21. GSAM 62.1