Matthew 3:6 (WEB)
They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
Fathers and councils · 12
Cyril of Jerusalem
“But learn, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, how they that came out were baptized by him: confessing their sins, it is said.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 4–12.
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John Chrysostom
““Then went out to him all Judea, and Jerusalem, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him, confessing their sins.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“…people with another, hear how the evangelist hath declared this too; saying of the people, “that they came and were baptized of him, confessing their sins;”but concerning the Pharisees, no longer like that, but that “when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming, he said, O generation of vipers, who hath…” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…they utter with exact care and loudly; and the disciples’ pursuits too, and their faults, and those of their Master’s ancestry who were notorious for sins,they discover with a clear voice.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 6.
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Tertullian
“They who are about to enter baptism ought to pray with repeated prayers, fasts, and bendings of the knee, and vigils all the night through, and with the confession of all bygone sins, that they may express the meaning even of the baptism of John: “They were baptized,” saith (the Scripture), “confessing their own sins.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 6. [See the collection of Dr. Bunsen for the whole primitive discipline to which Tertullian has reference, Hippol. Vol. III. pp. 5–23, and 29.]
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Having described the preaching of John, he goes on to say, “There went out to him,” for his severe life preached yet more loudly in the desert than the voice of his crying.
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For it was wonderful to see such fortitude in a human body; this it was that chiefly attracted the Jews, seeing in him the great Elias. It also contributed to fill them with wonder that the grace of Prophecy had long…
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This baptism was only a forerunning of that to come, and did not forgive sins. [ed. note: Tertullian (de Bapt. 10. 11) S. Jerome (adv. Lucifer. 7) S. Gregory (Hom. in Evang. vii. 3) Theophylact in Marc. ch. i. S.…
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The baptism of John bare a figure of the catechumens. As children are only catechized that they may become meet for the sacrament of Baptism; so John baptized, that they who were thus baptized might afterwards by a…
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Compared with the holiness of John, who is there that can think himself righteous? As a white garment if placed near snow would seem foul by the contrast; so compared with John every man would seem impure; therefore…
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Rightly are they who are to be baptized said to go out to the Prophet; for unless one depart from sin, and renounce the pomp of the Devil, and the temptations of the world, he cannot receive a healing baptism.…
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Cross-references · 1
Matthew 3:6 and Mark 1:5 share the same wording (8 words).