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Graphic-novel illustration of John helping a baptized Judean rise from the Jordan while others wait on the bank.
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Matthew 3:5-6

Baptized in the Jordan

John Baptizes Jesus · Matthew 3

Story guide: People from Jerusalem, Judea, and the Jordan region come confessing their sins and are baptized.

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5Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan were going out to him,

6and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

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