Matthew 3:1

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Summary

Matthew 3:1

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

Those

Luke 3:1

John

Preaching

Isaiah 40:3

Mark 1:7

Luke 1:17

General references

Luke 1:16

Bible References

Those

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip being tetrarch of the region belonging to Ituraea, and of the region of

John

Truly I say to you, among men born of women there has not been raised a greater than John the immerser. Yet the smaller in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

and he said to his boys, This is John the immerser. He has risen from the dead, and because of this the powers work in him.

And they said, Some, John the immerser, others, Elijah, but others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

But I say to you, that Elijah already came, and they knew him not, but did to him how many things they wanted. Likewise also the Son of man is going to suffer by them.

The immersion of John, from where was it, from heaven or from men? And they deliberated with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?

It came to pass, that John was immersing in the wilderness and preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins.

But Herod, when he heard, said, This is John whom I beheaded. He was raised from the dead.

But the agent said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy plea was heard, and thy wife Elizabeth will bear a son for thee. And thou shall call his name John.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God became in John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

A man came to be who was sent from God, his name was John.

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.

having begun from the immersion of John to the day that he was taken up from us, for one of these to become a witness with us of his resurrection.

John having earlier proclaimed, before his coming presence, the immersion of repentance to Israel.

And he said to them, Into what then were ye immersed? And they said, Into John's immersion.

Preaching

The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

And he preached, saying, A man mightier than I comes after me of whom I am not worthy, having stooped down, to loosen the strap of his shoes.

And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for Lord a people prepared.

General references

And he will turn back many of the sons of Israel to Lord their God.