To Fulfill All Righteousness

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 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.

Matthew 3:13f (Spoke 18, Cycle 2)

The first words of the Lord Jesus Christ recorded in the Book of Matthew on Spoke 18 of the Bible Wheel perfectly manifest the fundamental meaning the eighteenth letter Tzaddi as revealed in the KeyWord found in the first Tzaddi verse of the great alphabetic Psalm 119:

TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

The word translated as "righteous" is the Tzaddi KeyWord צדק. This is discussed at length in the introduction to Spoke 18. It seems more than a mere coincidence that the last two consonants of this fundamental Hebrew root are also the consonants of the fundamental Greek root dikaio, the root of δικαιοϛ (dikaios, righteous). Indeed, I am inclined to agree with the anonymous Rabbi who declared "Coincidence is not a kosher word!" As seen in the numerous articles on the sidebar, righteousness is a fundamental theme that manifests on Spoke 18 of the Bible Wheel and many Inner Cycles. This sets the tone for the Book of Matthew wherein the Gospel of God's Righteousness first breaks forth.

This theme of Righteousness strongly differentiates the Gospel of Matthew from the other three, as seen by searching the Four Gospels of the KJV for all verses that contain the words righteous or righteousness:

This pattern is essentially the same in all seven English