Now John himself had his clothing made from camel’s hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan were going out to him, and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they[a] confessed their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:6 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“confessed”) which is understood as temporal