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Matthew 3 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)

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1 En aquellos días llegó Juan el Bautista, quien proclamaba en el desierto de Judea: 2 Cambien de mente, porque el reino celestial llegó. 3 Pues yo soy el anunciado por el profeta Isaías: Voz de uno que clama en el desierto: Preparen el camino del Señor. Allanen sus sendas. 4 Juan estaba vestido con pelo de camello y un cinturón de cuero. Su comida era saltamontes y miel silvestre. 5 Acudía a él Jerusalén, toda Judea y toda la región de alrededor del Jordán. 6 Confesaban públicamente sus pecados y los bautizaba en el río Jordán. 7 Cuando vio que muchos fariseos y saduceos acudían a su bautismo, les dijo: ¡Generación de víboras! ¿Quién les enseñó a huir de la ira que viene? 8 Produzcan frutos dignos de cambio de mente, 9 y no supongan que puedan decir: A Abraham tenemos como padre. Porque les digo que Dios puede levantar de estas piedras hijos a Abraham. 10 Ya el hacha está puesta sobre la raíz de los árboles, de modo que todo árbol que no da buen fruto es cortado y echado al fuego. 11 Yo ciertamente los bautizo con agua para [indicar] el cambio de mente, pero el que viene después de mí es más poderoso que yo. No soy digno de llevar sus sandalias. Él los bautizará con Espíritu Santo y fuego. 12 Tiene su soplador en la mano y limpiará bien su era. Recogerá su trigo en el granero y quemará la concha partida del grano con fuego inextinguible. 13 Entonces llegó Jesús desde Galilea al Jordán donde estaba Juan, para que lo bautizara. 14 Pero [Juan] trataba de impedirle: Yo necesito que Tú me bautices, ¿y Tú vienes a mí? 15 Jesús le respondió: Permítelo ahora, porque así nos conviene cumplir toda justicia. Entonces se lo permitió. 16 Cuando Jesús fue bautizado, salió enseguida del agua. Los cielos se abrieron. Vio al Espíritu de Dios que descendía como una paloma y se posó sobre Él. 17 [Se oyó] una voz celestial que dijo: Este es mi Hijo amado, en Quien me complací.

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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

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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

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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).

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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).

  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)