Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ And in those days John the immerser comes, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, ² Repent ye, for the kingdom of the heavens has approached.

In the Wilderness

In Those Days

Days Come

In The Desert

John

Judaea

Judea

Matthew 11:11

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.

Matthew 16:14

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

John 1:6-8

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

Joshua 14:10

And now, behold, LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Joshua 15:61-62

In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Judges 1:16

And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, and they went and dwelt with the people.

Isaiah 40:3-6

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.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance.

Matthew 11:7

And while those men departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes about John, What did ye go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Matthew 14:2-14

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.

Matthew 17:12-13

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.

Matthew 21:25-27

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?

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen it, ye did not repent afterward to believe him.

Mark 1:3-8

The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Lord. Make his paths straight.

Mark 1:15

and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent ye, and believe in the good-news.

Mark 6:16-29

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

Luke 1:13-17

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.

Luke 1:76

And thou, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. For thou will go ahead, before the face of Lord, to prepare his ways,

Luke 3:1-20

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

Luke 7:24

And after John's messengers departed, he began to say to the multitudes about John, What did ye go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

John 1:15-36

John testified about him, and cried out, saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me came to be before me, because he was before me.

John 3:27-36

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

Acts 1:22

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.

Acts 13:24-25

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

Acts 19:3-4

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