Repentance
Matthew 3:2-8
2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A
voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make
straight paths for him.’”
4 John’s clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a
leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
5 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the
whole region of the Jordan.
6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the
Jordan River.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming
to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned
you to flee from the coming wrath?
8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Mark 1:4
And so John
came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for
the forgiveness of sins.
Kingdom
of heaven at hand
Matthew 3:2-12
and saying,
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
Prophecy
Matthew 3:3
3 This is he
who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the
desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”
4 John’s
clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.
His food was locusts and wild honey.
5 People
went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the
Jordan.
6 Confessing
their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7 But when
he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he
said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming
wrath?
8 Produce
fruit in keeping with repentance.
9 And do not
think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you
that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
10 The ax is
already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good
fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
11 “I
baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more
powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and with fire.
12 His
winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering
his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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