NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 3:5

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Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

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Verse 5. So great was the celebrity of Saint John’s sanctity, so much did his mortified life, and powerful preaching, weigh upon the minds of the people, that all wished to receive baptism at his hands. A.

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