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? Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

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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