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Matthew, Chapter 3, verses 1-12

¹ Now in those days John the Baptist ^a Or arrived, or appearedcame,^b Or proclaiming as a heraldpreaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, ² “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven^c Lit has come nearis at hand.” ³ For this is the one referred to^d Or throughby Isaiah the prophet when he said, “THE VOICE OF ONE^e Or shouting*CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!’”	1 Mat 3:1-12 Luk 3:2-17 Joh 1:6-8 Joh 1:19-28 Mat 11:11-14 Mat 16:14 Jos 15:61 Jdg 1:16 2 Mat 4:17 Dan 2:44 Mat 4:17 Mat 4:23 Mat 6:10 Mat 10:7 Mar 1:15 Luk 10:9 Luk 11:20 Luk 21:31 3 Luk 1:17 Luk 1:76 Isa 40:3 Joh 1:23
⁴ Now John himself had^f Lit his garmenta garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan; ⁶ and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.	4 Ki2 1:8 Zec 13:4 Mat 11:8 Mar 1:6 Lev 11:22 5 Mar 1:5 Luk 3:3 6 Mat 3:11 Mat 3:13-16 Mar 1:5 Joh 1:25 Joh 1:26 Joh 3:23 Act 1:5 Act 2:38-41 Act 10:37
⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸ Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance; ⁹ and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. ¹⁰ The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.	7 Mat 16:1 Mat 23:13 Mat 23:15 Mat 22:23 Act 4:1 Act 5:17 Act 23:6 Mat 12:34 Mat 23:33 Th1 1:10 8 Luk 3:8 Eph 5:8 Eph 5:9 Act 26:20 9 Luk 3:8 Luk 16:24 Joh 8:33 Joh 8:39 Joh 8:53 Act 13:26 Rom 4:1 Rom 9:7 Rom 9:8 Gal 3:29 10 Luk 3:9 Psa 92:12-14 Mat 7:19 Joh 15:2
¹¹ “As for me, I baptize you^gwith water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you^hwith the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”	11 Mar 1:4 Mar 1:8 Luk 3:16 Joh 1:26 Act 1:5 Act 8:36 Act 8:38 Act 11:16 Joh 1:33 Act 2:3 Act 2:4 Tit 3:5 12 Isa 30:24 Isa 41:16 Jer 15:7 Jer 51:2 Luk 3:17 Mat 13:30 Psa 1:4 Isa 66:24 Jer 7:20 Mat 13:41 Mat 13:42 Mar 9:43 Mar 9:48


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