Matthew 3
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The Messiah’s Herald
1In those days John the Baptist came, # Mk 1:3-8; Lk 3:2-17; Jn 1:6-8,19-28 preaching in the Wilderness of Judea # Jos 15:61; Jdg 1:16 2and saying, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near! ” # Dn 2:44; Mt 4:17; 6:10; 10:7; Mk 1:15; Lk 10:9; 11:20; 21:31 3For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:
A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight! # Is 40:3; Lk 1:17,76; Jn 1:23 # Is 40:3
4John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him, 6and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins. # Mt 23:37; Mk 1:5; Lk 3:3; Jn 15:22; Ac 19:18
7When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees # Mt 16:1; 22:23; 23:15; Ac 4:1; 5:17; 23:6 coming to the place of his baptism, # Lit to his baptism he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? # Mt 12:34; 23:33; Rm 5:9; 1Th 1:10 8Therefore produce fruit # Mt 3:10; 12:33; 13:8,26; 21:19,34,41,43; Mk 11:14 consistent with # Lit fruit worthy of repentance. 9And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ # Lk 3:8; Jn 8:33,39; Ac 13:26; Rm 4:1 For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones! 10Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. # Mt 7:19; Lk 13:7,9; Jn 15:2,6
11“I baptize you with # Or in water for repentance, # Baptism was the means by which repentance was expressed publicly. # Mk 1:4,8; Jn 1:26; Ac 1:5 but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove # Or to carry His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with # Or in the Holy Spirit and fire. # Is 4:4; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:3-4; 11:16; Ti 3:5 12His winnowing shovel # A wooden farm implement used to toss threshed grain into the wind so the lighter chaff would blow away and separate from the heavier grain is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.” # Is 30:24; Mt 13:30; Mk 9:43,48; Lk 3:17
The Baptism of Jesus
13Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. # Mk 1:9-11; Lk 3:21-22; Jn 1:31-34 14But John tried to stop Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and yet You come to me? ”
15Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him to be baptized.
16After Jesus was baptized, He went up immediately from the water. The heavens # Mt 24:35; Lk 12:33; Ac 17:24; Eph 6:9; Rv 21:10 suddenly opened for Him, # Other mss omit for Him and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on Him. # Is 11:2; Jn 1:32; Ac 7:56; 2Pt 1:17 17And there came a voice from heaven:
This is My beloved Son.
I take delight in Him! # Ps 2:7; Is 42:1; Lk 9:35; Jn 12:28
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Matthew 3
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1Now in those days comes John the baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh. 3For this is he who has been spoken of through Esaias the prophet, saying, Voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. 4And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey. 5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan, 6and were baptised by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance. 9And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. 11I indeed baptise you with water to repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not fit to bear; he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire; 12whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
13Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised of him; 14but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me? 15But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers him. 16And Jesus, having been baptised, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him: 17and behold, a voice out of the heavens saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight.
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