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Matthew 3:5

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Repentance

3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

4 John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

7 But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
KJV
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
WEB
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
ASV
Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about the Jordan;
DARBY
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,
BLB
At that time they were going out to him—Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan.
ÅB
Da dro Jerusalem og hele Judea og omegn ut til ham,
OTB
Folk fra Jerusalem, hele Judea og hele området omkring Jordan gikk ut til ham,
B1930
Da drog Jerusalem og hele Judea og hele landet om Jordan ut til ham,

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Mark 1:5

    People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

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  • John 5:35

    John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

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  • Matthew 11:7–12

    As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

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  • John 3:23

    Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.

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  • Luke 3:7

    Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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  • Luke 16:16

    The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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  • Matthew 4:25

    The large crowds that followed Him came from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

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