John 3:23

Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salem, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

In Context

22After these things Jesus, along with His disciples, came into the land of Judea, and there He was staying with them and He was baptizing.

24(For John was not yet cast into prison).

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Cross References

Mark 1:4John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Revelation 1:15And His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;

Revelation 19:6And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord God Almighty has begun to reign!

Matthew Henry on John 3:23-36

John's Testimony to Christ. 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest… Read the whole commentary →

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