^{5 Ref} Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;

^{6 Ref} And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong.

^{7 Ref} But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?