(A)Then went out to him [a]Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,

And they were baptized of him in Jordan, [b]confessing their sins.

[c]Now when he saw many of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, (B)O generation of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the anger to come?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:5 The people of Jerusalem.
  2. Matthew 3:6 Acknowledging that they were saved only by free remission and forgiveness of their sins.
  3. Matthew 3:7 There is nothing that stoppeth up the way of mercy and salvation against us so much as the opinion of our own righteousness doth.

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