Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ In those days, John the Baptizer 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

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 16:14

They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

John 1:6-8

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

Joshua 14:10

"Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

Joshua 15:61-62

In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,

Judges 1:16

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

Isaiah 40:3-6

The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

Matthew 11:7

As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Matthew 14:2-14

and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him."

Matthew 17:12-13

but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."

Matthew 21:25-27

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Mark 1:3-8

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready 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 Good News."

Mark 6:16-29

But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead."

Luke 1:13-17

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request 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 a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the 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 tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Luke 7:24

When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

John 1:15-36

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

John 3:27-36

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."

Acts 13:24-25

before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

Acts 19:3-4

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