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Matthew 3:5-6
New English Translation

5 Then people from Jerusalem,[a] as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him, 6 and he was baptizing them[b] in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:5 tn Grk “Then Jerusalem.” In the Greek text the city (Jerusalem) is put by metonymy for its inhabitants (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 579).
  2. Matthew 3:6 tn Grk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style.
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