Matthew 3:1

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

¹ And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, ² and saying, 'Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

In the Wilderness

In Those Days

Days Come

In The Desert

John

Judaea

Judea

Matthew 11:11

Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.

Matthew 16:14

and they said, 'Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'

John 1:6-8

There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name is John,

Joshua 14:10

And, now, lo, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as He hath spoken, these forty and five years, since Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am to-day a son of five and eighty years;

Joshua 15:61-62

In the wilderness: Beth-Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Judges 1:16

And the sons of the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, have gone up out of the city of palms with the sons of Judah to the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, and they go and dwell with the people.

Isaiah 40:3-6

A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.

Matthew 3:8

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

Matthew 11:7

And as they are going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, 'What went ye out to the wilderness to view? -- a reed shaken by the wind?

Matthew 14:2-14

and said to his servants, 'This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

Matthew 17:12-13

and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'

Matthew 21:25-27

the baptism of John, whence was it? -- from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, 'If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

Matthew 21:32

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.

Mark 1:3-8

A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

Mark 1:15

and saying -- 'Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

Mark 6:16-29

And Herod having heard, said -- 'He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

Luke 1:13-17

and the messenger said unto him, 'Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,

Luke 1:76

And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

Luke 3:1-20

And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar -- Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene --

Luke 7:24

And the messengers of John having gone away, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John: 'What have ye gone forth to the wilderness to look on? a reed by the wind shaken?

John 1:15-36

John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, 'This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'

John 3:27-36

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'

Acts 13:24-25

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

Acts 19:3-4

and he said unto them, 'To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, 'To John's baptism.'