Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ Now in those days John the Baptist *came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, ² "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

In the Wilderness

In Those Days

Days Come

In The Desert

John

Judaea

Judea

Matthew 11:11

Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 16:14

And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say 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, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Joshua 15:61-62

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

Judges 1:16

And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.

Isaiah 40:3-6

A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Matthew 3:8

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

Matthew 11:7

As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Matthew 14:2-14

and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him."

Matthew 17:12-13

But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands."

Matthew 21:25-27

The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?" And they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.

Mark 1:3-8

the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'"

Mark 1:15

and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

Mark 6:16-29

But when Herod heard of it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised."

Luke 1:13-17

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

Luke 3:1-20

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 tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Luke 7:24

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

John 1:15-36

(John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'")

John 3:27-36

John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us--one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection."

Acts 13:24-25

Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Acts 19:3-4

And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."