Matthew 3:6
New International Version
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

New Living Translation
And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

English Standard Version
and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

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

Berean Literal Bible
and confessing their sins, were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.

King James Bible
And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

New King James Version
and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

New American Standard Bible
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

NASB 1995
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

NASB 1977
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

Legacy Standard Bible
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

Amplified Bible
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

Christian Standard Bible
and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

American Standard Version
and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River while confessing their sins.

Contemporary English Version
They told how sorry they were for their sins, and he baptized them in the river.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

English Revised Version
and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

Good News Translation
They confessed their sins, and he baptized them in the Jordan.

International Standard Version
being baptized by him in the Jordan River while they confessed their sins.

Literal Standard Version
and they were immersed in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.

Majority Standard Bible
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan.

New American Bible
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins.

NET Bible
and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

New Revised Standard Version
and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

New Heart English Bible
and they were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

Webster's Bible Translation
And were baptized by him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

Weymouth New Testament
and were baptized by him in the Jordan, making full confession of their sins.

World English Bible
They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

Young's Literal Translation
and they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
5People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan. 6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. 7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?…

Cross References
Ezra 10:1
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites--men, women, and children--gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Matthew 3:11
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Matthew 3:13
At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

Mark 1:5
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.

Luke 1:16
Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.

John 1:25
asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

John 1:26
"I baptize with water," John replied, "but among you stands One you do not know.


Treasury of Scripture

And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

were.

Matthew 3:11,13-16
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: …

Ezekiel 36:25
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Mark 1:8,9
I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost…

confessing.

Leviticus 16:21
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

Leviticus 26:40
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

Numbers 5:7
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.

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Matthew 3
1. John preaches: his office, life, and baptism.
7. He reprimands the Pharisees,
13. and baptizes Jesus in Jordan.














(6) Were baptized.--The Greek tense implies continual succession. Crowd after crowd passed on, and still they came confessing their sins--i.e., as the position of the word implies, in the closest possible connection with the act of immersion. The Greek word (sometimes used for "confessing" in the sense of "praising," as in Luke 12:8), always implies public utterance, and included, as the plural of the noun seems to show, a specific mention of, at least, the more grievous individual sins.

Verse 6. - And (they, Revised Version) were baptized. The Revised Version probably desires to call attention to the change in the verb from singular to plural. In Jordan; in the river Jordan (Revised Version, with manuscripts). So also parallel passage in Mark (cf. Introduction, p. 5.). By him; i.e. their baptism was not self-imposed, but an act of submission to his teaching, and of acceptance of his message. The forerunner saw results, not merely in crowds of listeners, but in external actions. By him (contrast John 4:2). Confessing their sins; i.e. in at least some detail; cf. Josephus, 'Ant.,' 8:04. 6, "confessing their sins and their transgressions of the laws of their country ( ἐξομολογουμένων τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς τῶν πατρίων νομίμων παραβάσεις);" also Acts 19:18, "confessing and declaring their deeds" (cf. James 5:16).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Confessing
ἐξομολογούμενοι (exomologoumenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1843: From ek and homologeo; to acknowledge or agree fully.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

sins,
ἁμαρτίας (hamartias)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

they were baptized
ἐβαπτίζοντο (ebaptizonto)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 907: Lit: I dip, submerge, but specifically of ceremonial dipping; I baptize.

by
ὑπ’ (hyp’)
Preposition
Strong's 5259: A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).

him
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Jordan
Ἰορδάνῃ (Iordanē)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2446: Of Hebrew origin; the Jordanes, a river of Palestine.

River.
ποταμῷ (potamō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4215: A river, torrent, stream. Probably from a derivative of the alternate of pino; a current, brook or freshet, i.e. Running water.


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