and everyone will see the salvation of God.[a](A)

He then said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, “Brood of vipers!(B) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(C) Therefore produce fruit(D) consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’(E) for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4–6 Is 40:3–5

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