In Matthew, the Father declares that he is “well pleased”
with the Son three times.
“Three?” you say. “I can think of two.”
Sure: the baptism of the Lord Jesus and his transfiguration.
But there is a third reference to the Father’s pleasure in the Son found in
Matthew 12. It’s a familiar quote from the book of Isaiah.
“Oh, a quote. That’s
kind of cheating.”