Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ Now, in those days, came John the Immerser, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judaea; ² saying, Repent ye, - for the kingdom of the heavens hath drawn near.

In the Wilderness

In Those Days

Days Come

In The Desert

John

Judaea

Judea

Matthew 11:11

Verily, I say unto you - There hath not arisen, among such as are born of women, a greater than John the Immerser, - yet, he that is less in the kingdom of the heavens, is, greater than he.

Matthew 16:14

And, they, said - Some, indeed, John the Immerser, and, others, Elijah, - but, others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

John 1:6-8

There arose a man, sent from God, whose name was, John:

Joshua 14:10

Now, therefore lo! Yahweh hath kept me alive as he spake these forty and five years from the time Yahweh spake this word unto Moses, while Israel journeyed in the desert. Now, therefore lo! I - to-day, am eighty and five years old:

Joshua 15:61-62

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

Judges 1:16

Now, the sons of the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, had come up from the city of palm-trees, with the sons of Judah, into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, - so they went and dwelt with the people.

Isaiah 40:3-6

A voice of one crying! - In the desert, prepare ye the way of Yahweh, - Make smooth in the waste plain a highway for our God:

Matthew 3:8

Bring forth, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance;

Matthew 11:7

But, as these were going their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes, concerning John, - What went ye forth into the wilderness to gaze at? A reed, by a wind, shaken?

Matthew 14:2-14

and he said unto his servants - This, is John the Immerser, - he hath arisen from the dead, for this cause, are the powers working mightily within him.

Matthew 17:12-13

But, I say unto you - that, Elijah, just now, came, - and they recognised him not, but did with him, whatsoever they pleased: Thus, the Son of Man also, is destined to suffer by them.

Matthew 21:25-27

The immersion by John, whence was it? Of heaven, or of men? But, they, began to deliberate among themselves, saying - If we say, Of heaven; He will say unto us, Wherefore then did ye not believe him?

Matthew 21:32

For John came unto you, in a way of righteousness, and ye believed him not, - but, the tax-collectors and the harlots, believed him; and, ye, seeing it, were not even smitten with regret, afterwards, so as to believe him.

Mark 1:3-8

A voice of one crying aloud - In the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight, be making his paths.

Mark 1:15

and saying- The season is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God hath drawn near, - Repent ye, and have faith in the glad-message.

Mark 6:16-29

But, when Herod heard, he was saying - He whom I beheaded - John, the same, hath been raised.

Luke 1:13-17

But the messenger said unto him - Do not fear, Zachariah! Inasmuch as thy supplication hath been hearkened to, - and, thy wife Elizabeth, shall bring forth a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name, John;

Luke 1:76

And, even thou, child, prophet of the Most High, shalt be called, - for thou shall march on before the Lord, to prepare his ways,

Luke 3:1-20

Now, in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, - Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and, Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanius, tetrarch of Abylene, -

Luke 7:24

And, the messengers of John having departed, he began to say unto the multitudes, concerning John - What went ye forth into the desert to gaze at? A reed, by a wind, shaken?

John 1:15-36

(John beareth witness concerning him, and hath cried aloud, saying - the same, was he that said - He who, after me, was coming, before me, hath advanced; because, my Chief, was he.)

John 3:27-36

John answered, and said - A man can receive, nothing, except it have been given him out of heaven.

Acts 1:22

Beginning from the immersion by John until the day when he was taken up from us, that, a witness of his resurrection along with us, should one of these become.

Acts 13:24-25

John, beforehand proclaiming, before the face of his coming in, an immersion of repentance, unto all the people of Israel.

Acts 19:3-4

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