Luke 3:3

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

King James Version (1611)
And he came into all the countrey about Iordane, preaching the baptisme of repentance, for the remissio of sinnes,

King James Version
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

English Standard Version
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

New American Standard Bible
And he came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

New Century Version
He went all over the area around the Jordan River preaching a baptism of changed hearts and lives for the forgiveness of sins.

Amplified Bible
And he went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

Legacy Standard Bible
And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

Berean Standard Bible
He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Contemporary English Version
So John went along the Jordan Valley, telling the people, "Turn back to God and be baptized! Then your sins will be forgiven."

Complete Jewish Bible
He went all through the Yarden region proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.

Darby Translation
And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching [the] baptism of repentance for [the] remission of sins,

Easy-to-Read Version
So he went through the whole area around the Jordan River and told the people God's message. He told them to be baptized to show that they wanted to change their lives, and then their sins would be forgiven.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee came into all the coastes about Iordan, preaching the baptisme of repentance for the remission of sinnes,

George Lamsa Translation
And he came throughout the country around Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

Good News Translation
So John went throughout the whole territory of the Jordan River, preaching, "Turn away from your sins and be baptized, and God will forgive your sins."

Lexham English Bible
And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Literal Translation
And he came into the neighborhood of the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of repentance for remission of sins,

American Standard Version
And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;

Bible in Basic English
And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

Hebrew Names Version
He came into all the region around the Yarden, preaching the immersion of repentance to remission of sins.

International Standard Version
JohnHe">[fn] went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:77;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And he came into the whole country about the Jurdan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Murdock Translation
And he came into all the region about the Jordan, proclaiming the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he came into all the coastes about Iordane, preachyng the baptisme of repentaunce, for the remission of sinnes:

English Revised Version
And he came into all the region round about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;

World English Bible
He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance to remission of sins.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins:

Weymouth's New Testament
John went into all the district about the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of the penitent for the forgiveness of sins;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he cam in to al the cuntre of Jordan, and prechide baptym of penaunce in to remyssioun of synnes.

Update Bible Version
And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance to remission of sins;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins;

New English Translation
He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

New King James Version
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,

New Living Translation
Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan River, preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had repented of their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.

New Life Bible
He went into all the country around the Jordan River. He preached that people should be baptized because they were sorry for their sins and had turned from them, and they would be forgiven.

New Revised Standard
He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he came into all the country about the Jordan, proclaiming an immersion of repentance into remission of sins:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins.

Revised Standard Version
and he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he came in to all the coostes aboute Iordan preachynge the baptyme of repentaunce for the remission of synnes

Young's Literal Translation
and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he came in to all ye coastes aboute Iordan, and preached the baptyme of repetaunce for the remyssion of synnes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
in pursuance of which, he went into all the country about Jordan, exhorting all to repent and be baptized, in order to obtain the remission of their sins.

Simplified Cowboy Version
John did what God told him to and went along the Jordan Draw telling people, "Turn your lives back to God and be dunked in water for the forgiveness of your sorry ways."

Contextual Overview

¹In the fifteenth year of the rule of Caesar Tiberius—it was while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea; Herod, ruler of Galilee; his brother Philip, ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis; Lysanias, ruler of Abilene; during the Chief-Priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas—John, Zachariah's son, out in the desert at the time, received a message from God. He went all through the country around the Jordan River preaching a baptism of life-change leading to forgiveness of sins, as described in the words of Isaiah the prophet: Thunder in the desert! "Prepare God's arrival! Make the road smooth and straight! Every ditch will be filled in, Every bump smoothed out, The detours straightened out, All the ruts paved over. Everyone will be there to see The parade of God's salvation." ⁷When crowds of people came out for baptism because it was the popular thing to do, John exploded: "Brood of snakes! What do you think you're doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to deflect God's judgment? It's your life that must change, not your skin. And don't think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as ‘father.' Being a child of Abraham is neither here nor there—children of Abraham are a dime a dozen. God can make children from stones if he wants. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire." ¹⁰ The crowd asked him, "Then what are we supposed to do?" ¹¹ "If you have two coats, give one away," he said. "Do the same with your food." ¹² Tax men also came to be baptized and said, "Teacher, what should we do?" ¹³ He told them, "No more extortion—collect only what is required by law." ¹⁴ Soldiers asked him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "No shakedowns, no blackmail—and be content with your rations."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the country: Matthew 3:5, Mark 1:4, Mark 1:5, John 1:28, John 3:26

preaching: Matthew 3:6, Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:4, John 1:31-33, Acts 13:24, Acts 19:4, Acts 22:16

for: Luke 1:77

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 2:9 - Ram Isaiah 56:1 - for Malachi 3:1 - and he Matthew 3:3 - by Matthew 11:7 - What Matthew 17:11 - and restore Matthew 24:26 - he is in the desert

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"

Genesis 3:13
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."

Genesis 3:16
He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."

Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Genesis 20:6
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family."

Job 1:11
"But what do you think would happen if you reached down and took away everything that is his? He'd curse you right to your face, that's what."

Job 19:21
"Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me! Do you have to be hard on me, too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?

1 Corinthians 7:1
Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he came into all the country about Jordan,.... He came out of the wilderness of Judea, where he first began his ministry, to some parts of the country that bordered on Jordan, and was near unto it, on either side the river; sometimes he was at Bethabara, and sometimes at Aenon, near Salim; for he did not take a tour round about all, the country that encompassed Jordan, but being at it, or in places adjacent to it, all the country round about came to him; see Matthew 3:5.

Preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins: this was the work and office of John, as signified by Elias, in Malachi 4:5 the Jews say n,

"the Israelites will not repent, till Elias comes; as it is said, Malachi 4:5 in the land of Israel repentance delights.''

John came into this land, preaching this doctrine;

Malachi 4:5- :.

n Pirke Eliezer, c. 44.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the baptism of John - see the notes at Matthew 3:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 3:3. The baptism of repentance — See Clarke on Matthew 3:4-6, and Mark 1:1; Mark 1:1, &c., and Mark 16:0 at the end.