Fullfill all righteousness!

What is meant by; To fulfill all righteousness? Several concordance notes on Matthew 3:15, refer back to Ezekiel 18.  Ezekiel 18:4,5 NASB states, "Behold, all [c]souls are Mine; the [d]soul of the father as well as the [e]soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die. But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness, " The Torah had only one standard of righteousness, perfection!  As Paul would later state, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."

This is why John the Baptist in verse 14 states; "But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”  Burton Coffman, "This was equivalent to saying, "Yes, I know I have no sins to be repented of and that I might claim an exemption from this duty proclaimed by the authority of God and binding upon all men; but, since this is God's ordinance, I wish to honor it anyway and am delighted to do so by obeying the commandment now.

The writer of Hebrews 10:1; "For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very [a]form of things, [b]can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near."  John the Baptist was the movie trailer of the good things to come, righteousness for all!  But this was the start, not the end!  So both John and Jesus humbly submit to baptizing and being baptized. There will be many more steps; the Temptation of Christ in the desert, the garden of Gethsemane, the Cross, the empty tomb, and eventually Revelation 22. As Joel asked us; "are we willing to do today, what it takes to fulfill God's righteous restoration of His creation?"

Jesus is pointing to a greater righteousness that transcends and exceeds the written law of the Torah - He is describing a righteousness not from without but a righteousness that God creates within us that is planted and becomes innate by a miracle of the Holy Spirit - a change of heart and attitude. It is described in various ways such as "the mind of Christ", the law of love", "the law of Christ", etc. (https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/48395/what-is-righteousness-in-matthew-315)

Be God's  Roger Miller