Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan were going out to him, and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they[a] confessed their sins.

But when he[b] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:6 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“confessed”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 3:7 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal