23And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
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Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, …
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. …
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-36)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s removal into the land of Judea (John 3:22), and there he tarried with his disciples. Observe, 1. Our Lord Jesus, after he entered upon his public work, travelled much, and removed often, as the patriarchs in their sojournings. As it was a good part of his humiliation that he had no certain dwelling-place, but was, as Paul, in journeyings often , so it was an in…
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