These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Matthew 3
Brit Hadashah 17 verses
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About this time the Baptist made his appearance, preaching in the Desert of Judaea.
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Isaiah 40:3-6 Matthew 16:14 Judges 1:16 John 1:6-8 Joshua 14:10 Matthew 11:11 John 1:15-36 Acts 1:22 Matthew 21:32 Matthew 14:2-14 Matthew 21:25-27 Mark 6:16-29 Matthew 3:8 Mark 1:3-8 John 3:27-36 Luke 3:1-20 Joshua 15:61-62 Acts 13:24-25 Acts 19:3-4 Matthew 11:7 Matthew 17:12-13 Luke 1:13-17 Luke 1:76 Luke 7:24 Mark 1:15 -
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“Repent,” he said, “for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand.”
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Matthew 4:17 Matthew 6:10 Daniel 2:44 Mark 1:15 Matthew 10:7 Acts 11:18 2 Timothy 2:25 Ezekiel 33:11 Matthew 12:41 Luke 15:7 Job 42:6 Revelation 2:5 2 Peter 3:9 Luke 6:20 Hebrews 6:1 Luke 15:10 Luke 13:5 Acts 2:38 Acts 3:19 Luke 24:47 Acts 20:21 1 Kings 8:47 Acts 26:20 Mark 1:4 Luke 13:3 Matthew 5:19-20 Mark 6:12 Revelation 2:21 Matthew 5:10 2 Corinthians 7:10 Acts 17:30 Matthew 13:47 Luke 9:2 Matthew 13:33 Matthew 22:2 Luke 10:9-11 Matthew 11:20 Matthew 6:33 Matthew 13:31 Matthew 11:11-12 Luke 11:20 Matthew 25:14 Matthew 18:23 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Matthew 21:29-32 Luke 21:31 Matthew 13:11 Matthew 23:13 Matthew 18:1-4 Matthew 13:44-45 Colossians 1:13 Matthew 20:1 Luke 16:30 John 3:3-5 Matthew 13:52 Matthew 13:24 Matthew 5:3 Matthew 25:1 -
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He it is who was spoken of through the Prophet when he said, “The voice of one crying aloud, ‘In the desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.’”
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- 4 This man wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a loincloth of leather; and he lived upon locusts and wild honey.
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Then large numbers of people went out to him—people from and from all Judaea, and from the whole of the valley—
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and were baptized by him in the , making full confession of their sins.
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Acts 19:18 Mark 1:5 Matthew 3:11 Matthew 3:13-16 Acts 2:38-41 Acts 1:5 Acts 10:36-38 Colossians 2:12 James 5:16 Ezekiel 36:25 Luke 15:18-21 1 Corinthians 10:2 John 1:31-33 1 John 1:9 Mark 1:8-9 Psalm 32:5 Hebrews 9:10 Luke 3:16 Job 33:27-28 John 3:23-25 Acts 19:4-5 Leviticus 16:21 1 Peter 3:21 Joshua 7:19 John 1:25-28 Hebrews 6:2 Acts 11:16 Titus 3:5-6 Leviticus 26:40 Acts 22:16 Numbers 5:7 Daniel 9:4 Proverbs 28:13 -
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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for , he exclaimed, “O vipers’ brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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Matthew 12:34 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Matthew 23:33 Matthew 22:23 Acts 5:17 Romans 5:9 Acts 23:6-9 Matthew 16:6 Jeremiah 6:10 Romans 1:18 Matthew 16:11-12 Acts 26:5 Genesis 3:15 Matthew 15:12 Mark 12:18 Revelation 12:9-10 Psalm 58:3-6 Ezekiel 3:18-21 Isaiah 59:5 John 8:44 Matthew 23:13-28 Acts 20:31 Jeremiah 51:6 John 9:40 Luke 18:11 Ezekiel 33:3-7 2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 Matthew 22:34 Luke 7:30 1 John 3:10 Luke 11:39-44 Mark 8:15 Acts 15:5 Revelation 6:16-17 John 1:24 Matthew 5:20 Acts 4:1-2 Mark 12:13 Luke 3:7-9 Matthew 22:15 Hebrews 11:7 Matthew 12:24 Mark 7:3-5 Isaiah 57:3-4 John 7:45-49 Luke 16:14 Hebrews 6:18 - 8 Therefore let your lives prove your change of ;
- 9 and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have as our forefather,’ for I tell you that can raise up descendants for from these stones.
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And already the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which does not produce good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire.
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I indeed am baptizing you in water on a profession of repentance; but He who is coming after me is mightier than I: His sandals I am not worthy to carry for a moment; He will baptize you in the Holy and in fire.
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Acts 1:5 Luke 3:16 Isaiah 4:4 Ephesians 3:8 Acts 11:15-16 Mark 1:4 Acts 13:24-25 Matthew 3:6 1 Corinthians 12:13 1 Peter 5:5 Acts 19:4 John 1:33-34 Mark 1:7-8 Luke 3:3 Luke 1:17 John 1:30 Isaiah 44:3 Zechariah 13:9 John 1:15 Acts 2:2-4 John 3:23-36 Isaiah 59:20-21 Luke 7:6-7 Titus 3:5 John 1:26-27 Malachi 3:2-4 Galatians 3:27-28 -
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His winnowing-shovel is in His hand, and He will make a thorough clearance of His threshing-floor, gathering His wheat into the storehouse, but burning up the chaff in unquenchable fire.”
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Malachi 4:1 Luke 3:17 Matthew 13:30 Jeremiah 7:20 Psalm 1:4 Jeremiah 51:2 Isaiah 41:16 Matthew 13:41 Isaiah 17:13 Isaiah 66:24 Isaiah 30:24 Psalm 35:5 Isaiah 1:31 Jeremiah 17:27 Isaiah 5:24 Malachi 3:2-3 Jeremiah 15:7 Job 21:18 Matthew 13:43 Amos 9:9 Ezekiel 20:47-48 Jeremiah 4:11 Hosea 13:3 John 15:2 Matthew 13:49-50 Mark 9:43-48 -
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Just at that time , coming from to the , presents Himself to to be baptized by him.
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- 14 protested. “It is I,” he said, “who have need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
- 15 “Let it be so on this occasion,” replied; “for so we ought to fulfil every religious duty.” Then he consented;
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and was baptized, and immediately went up from the water. At that moment the opened, and he saw the of descending like a dove and alighting upon Him,
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- 17 while a voice came from Heaven, saying, “This is My Son, the dearly loved, in whom is My delight.”