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His message was,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near. ”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The prophet Isaiah was speaking about John when he said, “He is a voice shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the LORD’s coming! Clear the road for him!’”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">John’s clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">People from Jerusalem and from all of Judea and all over the Jordan Valley went out to see and hear John.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even now the ax of God’s judgment is poised, ready to sever the roots of the trees. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“I baptize with water those who repent of their sins and turn to God. But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am—so much greater that I’m not worthy even to be his slave and carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.” The Baptism of Jesus<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires. ” So John agreed to baptize him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And a voice from heaven said, “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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