Complex sentence: Jesus comes to John and is baptized by him in the river Jordan; as he emerges from the water, the heavens are'torn apart' and the Holy Spirit descends on him'like a dove'.
Split into simpler sentences: Jesus comes to John, and is baptized by him in the river Jordan. The account describes how; as he emerges from the water, the heavens are'torn apart' and the Holy Spirit descends on him'like a dove'.