Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea, ² Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

In the Wilderness

In Those Days

Days Come

In The Desert

John

Judaea

Judea

Matthew 11:11

Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 16:14

And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

John 1:6-8

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Joshua 14:10

And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

Joshua 15:61-62

In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;

Judges 1:16

Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

Isaiah 40:3-6

A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

Matthew 3:8

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

Matthew 11:7

And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

Matthew 14:2-14

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.

Matthew 17:12-13

But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they had no knowledge of him, but did to him whatever they were pleased to do; the same will the Son of man undergo at their hands.

Matthew 21:25-27

The baptism of John, where did it come from? from heaven or from men? And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did you not have faith in him?

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

Mark 1:3-8

The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

Mark 1:15

And saying, The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near: let your hearts be turned from sin and have faith in the good news.

Mark 6:16-29

But Herod, when he had news of it, said, John, whom I put to death, has come back from the dead.

Luke 1:13-17

But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

Luke 3:1-20

Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,

Luke 7:24

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

John 1:15-36

John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

John 3:27-36

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

Acts 1:22

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

Acts 13:24-25

For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

Acts 19:3-4

And he said, What sort of baptism did you have? And they said, The baptism of John.