The dove/Spirit rests on Jesus, because Jesus is true rest. Just as the dove was sent to find land in Noah’s day, in Matthew the dove rests on Jesus, because he is the true land. In Him there is safety and refuge from judgment; the religious leaders of Jesus’ day did not seek the true land, the true rest, and thus were judged in the Nohaic-like judgment of AD 70.
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