Matthew 3:5 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole Jordan Valley went to him.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

ASV:

Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about the Jordan;

BBE:

Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;

DBY:

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,

ERV:

Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan;

WEY:

Then large numbers of people went out to him--people from Jerusalem and from all Judaea, and from the whole of the Jordan valley--

WBS:

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region about Jordan,

WEB:

Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

YLT:

Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan,

Matthew 3:5 Cross References

XREF:

Mark 1:5 And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Luke 3:3 And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:5 Then went out to him {g} Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
(g) The people of Jerusalem.

PNT:

3:5 There went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea. These expressions must be taken, not as meaning every individual, but as showing the wonderful impression produced by his preaching. All Judea, and among the rest, the people of Jerusalem came.

MHC:

3:1-6 After Malachi there was no prophet until John the Baptist came. He appeared first in the wilderness of Judea. This was not an uninhabited desert, but a part of the country not thickly peopled, nor much enclosed. No place is so remote as to shut us out from the visits of Divine grace. The doctrine he preached was repentance; Repent ye. The word here used, implies a total alteration in the mind, a change in the judgment, disposition, and affections, another and a better bias of the soul. Consider your ways, change your minds: you have thought amiss; think again, and think aright. True penitents have other thoughts of God and Christ, sin and holiness, of this world and the other, than they had. The change of the mind produces a change of the way. That is gospel repentance, which flows from a sight of Christ, from a sense of his love, and from hopes of pardon and forgiveness through him. It is a great encouragement to us to repent; repent, for your sins shall be pardoned upon your repentance. Return to God in a way of duty, and he will, through Christ, return unto you in the way of mercy. It is still as necessary to repent and humble ourselves, to prepare the way of the Lord, as it then was. There is a great deal to be done, to make way for Christ into a soul, and nothing is more needful than the discovery of sin, and a conviction that we cannot be saved by our own righteousness. The way of sin and Satan is a crooked way; but to prepare a way for Christ, the paths must be made straight, Heb 12:13. Those whose business it is to call others to mourn for sin, and to mortify it, ought themselves to live a serious life, a life of self-denial, and contempt of the world. By giving others this example, John made way for Christ. Many came to John's baptism, but few kept to the profession they made. There may be many forward hearers, where there are few true believers. Curiosity, and love for novelty and variety, may bring many to attend on good preaching, and to be affected for a while, who never are subject to the power of it. Those who received John's doctrine, testified their repentance by confessing their sins. Those only are ready to receive Jesus Christ as their righteousness, who are brought with sorrow and shame to own their guilt. The benefits of the kingdom of heaven, now at hand, were thereupon sealed to them by baptism. John washed them with water, in token that God would cleanse them from all their iniquities, thereby intimating, that by nature and practice all were polluted, and could not be admitted among the people of God, unless washed from their sins in the fountain Christ was to open, Zec 13:1.

CONC:

District Forth Jerusalem Jordan Judaea Judea Large Numbers Region Round Valley

Country District Forth Jerusalem Jordan Judaea Judea Large Numbers Region Round Valley Whole

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