John: His Influence Upon the Public Mind

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

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

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he was afraid of the people, because they regarded John as a prophet.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

But if we say, ‘From men’...” they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John truly was a prophet.

Then 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?

The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John could be the Christ.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. …