Matthew 3:1-10 ▼

1 In those dayes, came Iohn the Baptist, preachyng in the wyldernesse of Iurie, and saying.

2 Repent, for the kingdome of heauen is at hande.

3 For this is he, of whom it is spoken by the prophete Esayas, saying. The voyce of one crying in the wyldernesse: prepare ye the way of the Lorde, make his pathes strayght.

4 This Iohn had his rayment of Camels heere, and a girdle of a skynne about his loynes, his meate was locustes, and wylde hony.

5 Then went out to hym Hierusalem, and all Iurie, and all the region rounde about Iordane,

6 And were baptized of hym in Iordane, confessyng their sinnes.

7 But when he sawe many of the Pharisees, and Saducees come to his baptisme, he sayde vnto them. O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the anger to come?

8 Bryng foorth therefore fruites meete for repentaunce.

9 And be not of suche mynde, that ye woulde say within your selues, we haue Abraham to our father. For I say vnto you, that God is able, of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham.

10 Euen now is the axe also put vnto the roote of the trees: therefore, euery tree which bryngeth not foorth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.