Matthew 3:6 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 3:6

Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

KJV

And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

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Commentary

7 voices

Hilary of Poitiers

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (367)

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.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Tertullian

On Baptism (220)

They who are about to enter baptism ought to pray with repeated prayers, fasts, and bendings of the knee, and vigils all the night through, and with the confession of all by- gone sins, that they may express the meaning even of the baptism of John: "They were baptized," saith (the Scripture), "confessing their own sins."

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And were baptized of him,.... The place where they were baptized of him was, "in Jordan"; some copies read, "in the river Jordan", as in Mar 1:5. As to the name of this river, and the etymology of it, the Jews say (l) it was so called, שיורד מדן "because it descended" from Dan, i.e. Leshem Dan, or Pamias, which they say is a cave at the head of it. It was in John's time and long after a considerable river, a river to swim in; we (m) read that "Resh Lakish הוה סחי בירדנא was swimming in Jordan."

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Were baptized - In what form baptism was originally administered, has been deemed a subject worthy of serious dispute. Were the people dipped or sprinkled? for it is certain βαπτω and βαπτιζω mean both. They were all dipped, say some. Can any man suppose that it was possible for John to dip all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea, and of all the country round about the Jordan? Were both men and women dipped, for certainly both came to his baptism? This could never have comported either with safety or with decency. Were they dipped in their clothes?

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1856)

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐβαπτίζοντο	ebaptizonto	were being baptized	G907 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
Ἰορδάνῃ	Iordanē	Jordan	G2446 →
ποταμῷ	potamō	River	G4215 →
ὑπ᾽	hup᾽	by	G5259 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	him	G846 →
ἐξομολογούμενοι	exomologoumenoi	confessing	G1843 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίας	hamartias	sins	G266 →
αὐτῶν.¶	autōn	of them.	G846 →

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

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
leads to
- Jeremiah 33:8
  And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 32:5
  Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
- Proverbs 28:13
  He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- 1 John 1:7
  But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 51:2–5
  Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Through
Ezekiel 36:25
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
leads to
- Hebrews 10:22
  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- John 3:5
  Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
- Titus 3:5–6
  He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.