Matthew 3:5

The English Standar Version

Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,

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And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

"The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.[5]

He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men[1] from the east came to Jerusalem,

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.