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After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.

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Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized.

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Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

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He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, "I am not the Christ."

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They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

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Finally they said, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

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John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.' "

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But the angel said to him: "Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

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He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth,

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for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.

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Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God.

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And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

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Zechariah asked the angel, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years."

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"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

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But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased

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For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

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He went into all the country around the Jordan , preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "A voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.

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Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth.

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And all mankind will see God's salvation.' "

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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?

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As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

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Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.

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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

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Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."