Mateo 3:5

5 Gente de Jerusalén, de toda Judea y de todo el valle del Jordán salía para ver y escuchar a Juan;

Mateo 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 3:5

Then went out to him Jerusalem
The uncommon appearance of this person, the oddness of his dress, the austerity of his life, together with the awfulness and importance of his doctrine, and the novelty of the ordinance of baptism he administered, and the Jews having had no prophet for some hundreds of years, and imagining he might be the Messiah, quickly drew large numbers of people to him. Some copies read "all Jerusalem": that is, the inhabitants of that city, a very large number of them; and "all Judea", a great number of people from all parts of that country. "All" is here put for "many". And

all the region round about Jordan;
multitudes from thence, which seems to be the same country with that which is called "beyond Jordan", ( Matthew 4:25 ) and is distinguished from Judea as here. The Septuagint in ( 2 Chronicles 4:17 ) use the same phrase the Evangelist does here, and likewise in ( Genesis 13:10 Genesis 13:11 ) .

Mateo 3:5 In-Context

3 El profeta Isaías se refería a Juan cuando dijo:
«Es una voz que clama en el desierto:
“¡Preparen el camino para la venida del Señor
!
¡Ábranle camino!”»
.

4 Juan usaba ropa tejida con pelo rústico de camello y llevaba puesto un cinturón de cuero alrededor de la cintura. Se alimentaba con langostas y miel silvestre.

5 Gente de Jerusalén, de toda Judea y de todo el valle del Jordán salía para ver y escuchar a Juan;

6 y cuando confesaban sus pecados, él las bautizaba en el río Jordán.

7 Cuando Juan vio que muchos fariseos y saduceos venían a mirarlo bautizar,
los enfrentó. «¡Camada de víboras! —exclamó—. ¿Quién les advirtió que huyeran de la ira divina que se acerca?