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Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.[a]

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sad′ducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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  1. 3.6 Not a Christian baptism but a preparation for it.

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized(A) by him in the Jordan River.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!(B) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(C)

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