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1 En aquellos días, Juan el Bautista comenzó a predicar en el desierto de Judea.
1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
2 Este era su mensaje: «Arrepiéntanse de sus pecados porque el reino de los cielos se ha acercado».
2 “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
3 Siglos atrás, el profeta Isaías había hablado de Juan y lo describió así: «Una voz clama en el desierto: “Prepárenle el camino al Señor; que nada le estorbe a su paso”».
3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”
4 Juan usaba ropa hecha de pelo de camello y se la sujetaba con un cinto de cuero. Su alimentación consistía en langostas del desierto y miel silvestre.
4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Toda la gente de Jerusalén, de todo el valle del Jordán y de toda Judea, iba al desierto a escucharlo.
5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
6 A los que reconocían que eran pecadores, él los bautizaba en el río Jordán.
6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 Y cuando vio que entre los que iban a bautizarse había muchos fariseos y saduceos, les dijo: «Crías de víboras, ¿quién les dijo que así podrán escapar de la ira de Dios que vendrá sobre ustedes?
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Demuestren, antes de bautizarse, que están arrepentidos.
8 Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
9 No crean que les basta con decir que son descendientes de Abraham, porque Dios puede sacar hijos de Abraham aun de estas piedras.
9 Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
10 El hacha está lista para talar los árboles que no den fruto y arrojarlos al fuego.
10 Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
11 »Yo bautizo con agua a los que se arrepienten de sus pecados; pero después de mí vendrá alguien que es más poderoso que yo y él bautizará con el Espíritu Santo y fuego. ¡Yo ni siquiera soy digno de desatar sus zapatos!
11 “I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
12 Él está listo para separar la paja del trigo; quemará la paja en un fuego que nunca se apaga y guardará el trigo en su granero».
12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
13 Jesús fue desde Galilea a donde estaba Juan en el río Jordán, para que lo bautizara.
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
14 Pero Juan no quería hacerlo. ―¿Cómo va a ser eso? —le decía Juan a Jesús—. ¡Tú eres el que debería bautizarme a mí!
14 But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
15 ―Juan —le respondió Jesús—, bautízame, porque nos conviene cumplir lo que Dios manda. Y Juan lo bautizó.
15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
16 Cuando Jesús salía de las aguas del bautismo, los cielos se abrieron y vio que el Espíritu de Dios descendía sobre él en forma de paloma;
16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
17 y una voz de los cielos dijo: «Este es mi Hijo amado, y en él me complazco».
17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
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John the Baptist
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 Isaiah 40:3–6; John 1:6–8; Luke 1:13–17; Luke 1:76; Luke 3:1–20
- 2 Mark 1:15; Matthew 4:17; Daniel 2:44; 2 Corinthians 7:10; Luke 24:47
- 3 Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 3:1; John 1:23; Luke 1:76; Mark 1:3
- 4 2 Kings 1:8; Mark 1:6; Matthew 11:8; Zechariah 13:4; Leviticus 11:22
- 5 Mark 1:5; John 5:35; Matthew 11:7–12; John 3:23; Luke 3:7
- 6 Acts 19:18; Matthew 3:13–16; 1 John 1:9; John 1:25–28; Ezekiel 36:25
- 7 Matthew 12:34; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Matthew 22:23; Romans 5:9; Matthew 23:33
- 8 Luke 3:8; Acts 26:20; 2 Peter 1:4–8; Galatians 5:22–23; Ephesians 5:9
- 9 Luke 3:8; Romans 9:7–8; Galatians 3:27–29; John 8:33; Acts 13:26
- 10 John 15:6; Luke 3:9; Matthew 7:19; John 15:2; Luke 13:6–9
- 11 Isaiah 4:4; Luke 3:16; Acts 1:5; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:2–4
- 12 Malachi 4:1; Matthew 13:30; Luke 3:17; Isaiah 41:16; Jeremiah 51:2
- 13 John 1:32–34; Matthew 2:22; Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–22
- 14 John 3:3–7; Acts 1:5–8; John 13:6–8; John 1:16; Ephesians 2:3–5
- 15 John 4:34; Isaiah 42:21; John 13:15; John 15:10; Philippians 2:7–8
- 16 Isaiah 11:2; Luke 3:21–22; Mark 1:10; John 1:31–34; Isaiah 42:1
- 17 Isaiah 42:1; Matthew 17:5; Psalm 2:7; Luke 9:35; Matthew 12:18
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“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).
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)
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 …
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)
… 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)
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)