{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_mat003_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_mat003_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_mat003_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/mat003.htm","summary":"This is a parallel-text scripture presentation of Matthew 3:1\u201317 displayed simultaneously in three versions: the Greek New Testament (GNT), the King James Version (KJV), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul). The passage covers John the Baptist's ministry in the Judean wilderness, where he preaches repentance and announces the imminent arrival of the kingdom of heaven. John sharply rebukes the Pharisees and Sadducees who come for baptism, warning them that Abrahamic lineage confers no automatic standing before God and that judgment \u2014 symbolized by an axe at the root of trees \u2014 is already underway. He distinguishes his own water baptism from the coming one's baptism \"in the Holy Spirit and fire,\" declaring himself unworthy even to carry that figure's sandals. The passage culminates in Jesus's arrival from Galilee to be baptized by John, an exchange in which John protests his own unworthiness, and Jesus's subsequent baptism, at which the heavens open, the Spirit descends as a dove, and a divine voice declares him \"my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\" The three-column format is characteristic of scholarly or devotional tools designed to facilitate close textual comparison across the Greek source and its major Western translations.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Matthew: Matthew 3","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1069}