Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Wilderness of Judea ² and saying, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”

In the Wilderness

In Those Days

Days Come

In The Desert

John

Judaea

Judea

Matthew 11:11

“I assure you: Among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 16:14

And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

John 1:6-8

There was a man named John
who was sent from God.

Joshua 14:10

“As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these 45 years as He promised, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, 85 years old.

Joshua 15:61-62

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

Judges 1:16

The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.

Isaiah 40:3-6

A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.

Matthew 11:7

As these men went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

Matthew 14:2-14

“This is John the Baptist!” he told his servants. “He has been raised from the dead, and that’s why supernatural powers are at work in him.”

Matthew 17:12-13

“But I tell you: Elijah has already come, and they didn’t recognize him. On the contrary, they did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”

Matthew 21:25-27

Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from men?”

They began to argue among themselves, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.

Mark 1:3-8

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!

Mark 1:15

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the good news!”

Mark 6:16-29

When Herod heard of it, he said, “John, the one I beheaded, has been raised!”

Luke 1:13-17

But the angel said to him:

Do not be afraid, Zechariah,
because your prayer has been heard.
Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,
and you will name him John.

Luke 1:76

And child, you will be called
a 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, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Luke 7:24

After John’s messengers left, He began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

John 1:15-36

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

John 3:27-36

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day He was taken up from us—from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Acts 13:24-25

Before He came to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Acts 19:3-4

“Then what baptism were you baptized with?” he asked them.

“With John’s baptism,” they replied.