Matthew 3:1

John the Baptizer appears, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. The forerunner of the Messiah begins his ministry.

Cross-references · 25

• Isa 40:3–6The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
• John 1:6–8There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
• Luke 1:13–17But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
• Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
• Luke 3:1–20Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
• Matt 11:11Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
• Acts 19:3–4He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
• Acts 13:24–25before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
• Matt 16:14They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
• Mark 1:15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
• Matt 21:25–27The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
• Luke 7:24When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
• Matt 14:2–14and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”
• Acts 1:22beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
• Mark 1:3–8the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”
• Matt 17:12–13but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”
• Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Mark 6:16–29But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”
• Matt 11:7As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
• John 1:15–36John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
• Josh 15:61–62In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
• John 3:27–36John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Matt 21:32For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
• Judg 1:16The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
• Josh 14:10“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

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