TSK · Matthew 3:1

"Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead."

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."

He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."