Matthew 3:1 Cross References - Haweis

¹ THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea,

⁸ Produce then worthy fruits of repentance:

⁷ And when they were gone, Jesus began to speak to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

¹¹ Verily I say unto you, There hath not arisen, from those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

² and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore miracles are wrought by him. ³ For Herod having seized John, had bound him, and put him in prison, for the sake of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother. ⁴ For John said unto him, It is unlawful for thee to have her. ⁵ And though he wished to kill him, he was afraid of the multitude, for they held him as a prophet. ⁶ But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the circle, and pleased Herod: ⁷ so that with an oath he promised to give her whatever she should ask. ⁸ And she, being previously urged on by her mother, said, Give me here, in a spacious dish, the head of John the Baptist. ⁹ And the king was grieved: but for his oath's sake, and on account of those who were with him, he commanded it to be given her. ¹⁰ And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. ¹¹ And his head was brought on a large dish, and was given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother. ¹² And his disciples came and took the body, and buried it, and they came and told Jesus. ¹³ And when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from thence in a vessel into a desert place apart: and when the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities. ¹⁴ And when Jesus was come forth, he saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion towards them, and healed their sick.

¹⁴ But they replied, Some, that thou art John the Baptist; but others, Elias; and others again, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

¹² But I say unto you, That Elias is already come, and they knew him not, but have done by him whatsoever they chose: even so also must the Son of man suffer by them. ¹³ Then understood the disciples that he spake to them of John the Baptist.

²⁵ The baptism of John whence was it? from heaven, or from men? Hereupon they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we reply, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him? ²⁶ But if we say, From men, we are afraid of the populace, for they all hold John as a prophet. ²⁷ So they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. Then said he also to them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

³² For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the tax-gatherers and harlots believed on him. But ye, when ye saw it, repented not afterwards, that ye should believe on him.

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths strait." ⁴ John was baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. ⁵ And all the country of Judea went out to him, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶ Now John was clothed with a camel's hair garment, and a girdle of leather about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. ⁷ And he preached, saying, One mightier than I is coming after me, the string of whose shoes I am not worthy, stooping down, to unloose. ⁸ I indeed baptise you with water; but he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost.

¹⁵ and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God draweth nigh: repent, and believe the gospel.

¹⁶ But when Herod heard it, he said, This is John whom I beheaded; he is risen from the dead. ¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent and seized upon John, and bound him in prison, for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her. ¹⁸ For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. ¹⁹ Therefore Herodias bore him a rooted resentment, and would have slain him; yet could not: ²⁰ for Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man; and paid great attention to him and when he heard him, did many things, and heard him with delight. ²¹ And a favourable day being come for her purpose, when Herod on his birth-day made a supper for his nobles, and military commanders, and the principal personages of Galilee; ²² and the daughter of this Herodias coming in, and dancing, and delighting Herod, and his company, the king said to the damsel, Ask me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. ²³ And he swore unto her, That whatsoever thou shalt ask, I will give thee, even to the half of my kingdom. ²⁴ Then she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? and she said, The head of John the Baptist. ²⁵ And she came in immediately with eagerness to the king, and asked, saying, I desire that thou wilt give me on the spot, in a charger, the head of John the Baptist. ²⁶ And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet on account of his oath, and those who sat with him, he would not refuse her. ²⁷ And the king immediately sending a centinel, commanded his head to be brought thither: and he went, and beheaded him in the prison, ²⁸ and brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother. ²⁹ And when his disciples heard it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a sepulchre.

¹³ But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bring thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. ¹⁴ And it shall give thee joy and exultation; and many shall rejoice at his birth: ¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord; and he shall never drink wine, nor any intoxicating liquor; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. ¹⁶ And many of the children of Israel shall he turn unto the Lord, their God. ¹⁷ And he shall go forth before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to convert the hearts of fathers with their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people ready for the Lord.

⁷⁶ And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

¹ NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene: ² when Annas and Caiaphas were high-priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness; ³ and he came into all the country on the confines of Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; ⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths strait: ⁵ every valley shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be levelled, and the crooked ways made strait, and the rough roads smooth: ⁶ and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." ⁷ He said, therefore, to the multitudes who came out to be baptised by him, Ye broods of vipers, who hath warned you to fly from the approaching wrath? ⁸ Produce then fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say in yourselves, We have a father, even Abraham; for I say unto you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ⁹ But now is the ax laid even to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that produceth not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire. ¹⁰ And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then shall we do? ¹¹ And he answering said to them, He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath provisions, let him do in like manner. ¹² Then came also the farmers of the taxes to be baptised, and they said unto him, Master, what shall we do? ¹³ He said unto them, Exact nothing more than is appointed for you. ¹⁴ And the military men also asked him, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Extort nothing by force; nor turn informers; and be content with your pay. ¹⁵ Now when the people were in expectation, and many reasoned in their hearts respecting John, whether he were the Messiah, ¹⁶ John addressed himself to them all, saying, I indeed baptise you with water; but one mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie: he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire; ¹⁷ whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and collect the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. ¹⁸ Thus in many and various discourses exhorting them, he preached the glad tidings of the gospel to the people. ¹⁹ Now Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him, on account of Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the other wicked actions which he had done, ²⁰ added this also to all the rest, and shut up John in prison.

²⁴ Now when John's messengers were departed, he began to speak to the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

⁶ A man was sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ He came for a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light, that all men through him might believe. ⁸ He was not the Light, but sent that he should bear testimony concerning the Light.

¹⁵ John bore witness concerning him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I said, He that is coming after me, is before me: because before me he was. ¹⁶ And from his plenitude we all have received, even grace corresponding with [his] grace. ¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath thoroughly described him. ¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they should question him, Who art thou? ²⁰ And he confessed, and denied it not; but acknowledged, I am not the Messiah. ²¹ And they asked him, What then? art thou Elias? and he said, I am not. Art thou that prophet? and he answered, No. ²² Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us: What description givest thou of thyself? ²³ He said, I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way for the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. ²⁴ And they who were sent, were of the Pharisees. ²⁵ And they questioned him, and said to him, Why then dost thou baptise, if thou be not the Messiah, nor Elias, nor that prophet? ²⁶ John answered them, saying, I baptise with water: but in the midst of you hath stood a person, whom ye have not known; ²⁷ it is he, though coming after me, who was before me, the thong of whole sandal I am not worthy to untie. ²⁸ These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptising. ²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming to him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, ³⁰ This is he of whom I spake, After me cometh a man who was before me: for before me he existed. ³¹ And I knew him not: though that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore am I come baptising with water. ³² And John bore witness, saying, I saw the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it rested upon him. ³³ And I did not know him: but he that sent me baptising with water, he said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending as a dove, and resting upon him, that is he who baptiseth with the Holy Ghost. ³⁴ And I have seen it, and have borne testimony that this is the Son of God. ³⁵ On the morrow John was again standing with two of his disciples; ³⁶ and looking upon Jesus as he walked by, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

²⁷ John answered and said, A man cannot assume any thing, except it be given him from heaven. ²⁸ Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Messiah, but that I am sent before him. ²⁹ It is the bridegroom, who possesses the bride: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing by and hearing him, rejoiceth exceedingly at the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. ³⁰ He must grow great, but I diminutive. ³¹ He that cometh from above is above all: he whose origin is from earth is of the earth, and speaketh of the earth: he who cometh from heaven is above all. ³² And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; though no man receiveth his testimony. ³³ He that receiveth his testimony hath avouched that God is true. ³⁴ For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God hath not given the Spirit by measure unto him. ³⁵ The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. ³⁶ He that believeth on the Son hath life eternal: and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth upon him.

²² beginning from his baptism by John, until the day in which he was taken up from us, must there be chosen with us a witness of his resurrection, even one of these.

²⁴ John having preached before his first coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. ²⁵ But as John was finishing his course, he said, Whom do ye suppose me to be? I am not [the Messiah]. But, behold! he is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

³ And he asked them, Into what then were ye baptised? And they replied, Into John's baptism. ⁴ Then said Paul, John indeed baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people, That they should believe on him who was coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.