So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

Then he warned him to tell nobody, "But go," he said, "show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure make the offerings for your purification, just as Moses prescribed."

But he warned them particularly not to tell this to anyone,

for I have five brothers; let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place of torture.'