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 supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

John

Verily I say to you, in the begotten of women has there not risen a greater than John the Immerser; but the less in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; be was aroused from the dead; and for this, powers are energetic in him.

And they said, Some, truly, John the Baptist: and others, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

And I say to you, That Elias has already come, and they knew him not, but did by him whatever they would. So also the Son of man is about to suffer by them.

The baptism of John, whence was it of heaven or of men And they reasoned by themselves, saying, If we say, Of heaven; he will say to us, Why, then, believed ye him not?

John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins.

And Herod, having heard, said, That John whom I beheaded, this is he; he was raised from the dead.

And the messenger said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy supplication has been heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of And was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert.

A man was sent from God, the name to him John.

John answered and said, No man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven.

Having begun from the immersion of John, unto the day which he was taken up from us, be one of these a witness with you of his rising up.

John having proclaimed before the face of his coming the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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

Preaching

The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.

And he proclaimed, saying, The stronger than I comes after me, of whom I am not sufficient, having bent the head, to loose the strings of his shoes.

And he shall come before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the intelligence of the just; to prepare a people having been put in order for the Lord.

General references

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