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1 En aquellos días, Juan el Bautista llegó predicando en el desierto de Judea. 2 Decía: Arrepiéntanse, porque el reino de los cielos se ha acercado. 3 Juan era aquel de quien habló el profeta Isaías cuando dijo: Voz de uno que clama en el desierto: Preparen el camino del Señor; enderecen sus sendas. 4 Juan usaba ropa hecha de pelo de camello y llevaba un cinturón de cuero en la cintura. Su comida eran chapulines y miel silvestre. 5 Entonces salía a él la gente de Jerusalén, de toda Judea y de toda la región cercana al Jordán. 6 Confesaban sus pecados, y Juan los bautizaba en el río Jordán. 7 Pero cuando vio que muchos fariseos y saduceos venían a su bautismo, les dijo: ¡Hijos de serpientes! ¿Quién les enseñó a huir de la ira que viene? 8 Den fruto que muestre que de verdad se han arrepentido. 9 No piensen decir dentro de ustedes: Tenemos a Abraham por padre. Porque les digo que Dios puede levantar hijos de Abraham aun de estas piedras. 10 El hacha ya está puesta a la raíz de los árboles. Todo árbol que no da buen fruto será cortado y echado al fuego. 11 Yo los bautizo en agua para arrepentimiento; pero el que viene después de mí es más poderoso que yo. No soy digno ni de llevarle sus sandalias. Él los bautizará con el Espíritu Santo y con fuego. 12 Tiene el aventador en la mano. Limpiará su era, recogerá su trigo en el granero, y quemará la paja en un fuego que nunca se apaga. 13 Entonces Jesús vino de Galilea al Jordán, donde estaba Juan, para ser bautizado por él. 14 Pero Juan trató de impedírselo, diciendo: Yo necesito ser bautizado por ti, ¿y tú vienes a mí? 15 Jesús le respondió: Permítelo ahora, porque así conviene que cumplamos todo lo que es justo. Entonces Juan se lo permitió. 16 Después de ser bautizado, Jesús subió enseguida del agua. En ese momento, los cielos se abrieron, y él vio al Espíritu de Dios bajar como una paloma y venir sobre él. 17 Y una voz desde los cielos dijo: Este es mi Hijo amado; en él tengo gran gozo.

People & places in this chapter

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  • John the Baptist

    Forerunner who baptized Jesus

    Son of Zechariah, who preached in the wilderness and baptized in the Jordan, pointed to Jesus as the Lamb of God, rebuked Herod over Herodias and was imprisoned and beheaded.

    Cited in the guide: Matthew 3:1; Matthew 14:3; Luke 1:13

Cross references (17)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Isaiah 40:3–6; John 1:6–8; Luke 1:13–17; Luke 1:76; Luke 3:1–20
  2. 2 Mark 1:15; Matthew 4:17; Daniel 2:44; 2 Corinthians 7:10; Luke 24:47
  3. 3 Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 3:1; John 1:23; Luke 1:76; Mark 1:3
  4. 4 2 Kings 1:8; Mark 1:6; Matthew 11:8; Zechariah 13:4; Leviticus 11:22
  5. 5 Mark 1:5; John 5:35; Matthew 11:7–12; John 3:23; Luke 3:7
  6. 6 Acts 19:18; Matthew 3:13–16; 1 John 1:9; John 1:25–28; Ezekiel 36:25
  7. 7 Matthew 12:34; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Matthew 22:23; Romans 5:9; Matthew 23:33
  8. 8 Luke 3:8; Acts 26:20; 2 Peter 1:4–8; Galatians 5:22–23; Ephesians 5:9
  9. 9 Luke 3:8; Romans 9:7–8; Galatians 3:27–29; John 8:33; Acts 13:26
  10. 10 John 15:6; Luke 3:9; Matthew 7:19; John 15:2; Luke 13:6–9
  11. 11 Isaiah 4:4; Luke 3:16; Acts 1:5; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:2–4
  12. 12 Malachi 4:1; Matthew 13:30; Luke 3:17; Isaiah 41:16; Jeremiah 51:2
  13. 13 John 1:32–34; Matthew 2:22; Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–22
  14. 14 John 3:3–7; Acts 1:5–8; John 13:6–8; John 1:16; Ephesians 2:3–5
  15. 15 John 4:34; Isaiah 42:21; John 13:15; John 15:10; Philippians 2:7–8
  16. 16 Isaiah 11:2; Luke 3:21–22; Mark 1:10; John 1:31–34; Isaiah 42:1
  17. 17 Isaiah 42:1; Matthew 17:5; Psalm 2:7; Luke 9:35; Matthew 12:18

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary 3:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily X)

    How "in those days"? For not then, surely, when He was a child, and came to Nazareth, but thirty years after, John cometh; as Luke also testifies. How then is it said, "in those days"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 3:3 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VII)

    Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough into smooth ways; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." There is therefore one and the same God, the Father of our Lord, who also promised, through the prophets, that He would send His forerunner; and …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 3:2 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XII–XV)

    For Thou correctest man for iniquity, and "Thy judgments are a great deep." But because Thy Spirit was "borne over the waters," Thy mercy forsook not our misery, and Thou saidst, "Let there be light," "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Repent ye, let there be light.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 3:9 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily IX)

    … a better country." And again, "These all died in faith, not having obtained the promises, but having seen them afar off, and embraced them." And John too said unto those that were coming to him, "Think not to say, We have Abraham to our father." And Paul again, "For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel; neither they, …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 3:5 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture III)

    This man was baptizing in Jordan, and there went out unto him all Jerusalem, to enjoy the first-fruits of baptisms: for in Jerusalem is the prerogative of all things good.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)