Matthew 3:5

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

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KJV

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

ASV

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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The preacher of Christ is clad in the skins of unclean beasts, to which the Gentiles are compared, and so by the Prophets' dress is sanctified whatever in them was useless or unclean. The girdle is a thing of much efficacy to every good work, that we may be girt for every ministry of Christ.

Hilary of Poitiers· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 367patristic

Related commentary

Then went out to him Jerusalem,.... The uncommon appearance of this person, the oddness of his dress, the austerity of his life, together with the awfulness and importance of his doctrine, and the novelty of the ordinance of baptism he administered, and the Jews having had no prophet for some hundreds of years, and imagining he might be the Messiah, quickly drew large numbers of people to him. Some copies read "all Jerusalem": that is, the inhabitants of that city, a very large number of them; and "all Judea", a great number of people from all parts of that country.

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

Jerusalem - The people of Jerusalem. All Judea - Many people from Judea. It does not mean that literally all the people went, but that great multitudes went. It was general. Jerusalem was in the part of the country called Judea. Judea was situated on the west side of the Jordan. See the notes at Mat 2:22. Region about Jordan - On the east and west side of the river. Near to Jordan.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan--From the metropolitan center to the extremities of the Judean province the cry of this great preacher of repentance and herald of the approaching Messiah brought trooping penitents and eager expectants.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Rabbinic commentary

How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse — and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.

Cross-references

10 linked verses

The verses this one reaches10

Mark 1:5
People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
Luke 3:3
He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
Luke 3:7
Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 11:7–12
As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?
John 5:35
John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
Luke 16:16
The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
John 3:23
Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
Matthew 4:25
The large crowds that followed Him came from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Mark 11:32
But if we say, ‘From men’...” they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John truly was a prophet.
Luke 7:29
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

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Around this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

PlaceJerusalemJerusalemJerusalem is the central city of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament — home to Solomon's Temple, the Second Temple, and th…

John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness — Gustave Doré (engraving) — public domain

Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Canon: New Testament
Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 16:16
The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
leads to
- Matthew 11:9–14
  What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
- Matthew 21:32
  For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe…
- Acts 3:24–25
  Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
- Matthew 3:2
  and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- Luke 7:26–29
  What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
Through
Luke 3:7
Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
leads to
- Matthew 23:33
  You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
Through
John 5:35
John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
leads to
- 2 Peter 1:19
  We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day…
Through
Mark 1:5
People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
leads to
- Leviticus 26:40–42
  But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

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