Mattheüs 3:5

5 Toen is tot hem uitgegaan Jeruzalem en geheel Judea, en het gehele land rondom de Jordaan;

Mattheüs 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 ) .

Mattheüs 3:5 In-Context

3 Want deze is het, van denwelken gesproken is door Jesaja, den profeet, zeggende: De stem des roependen in de woestijn: Bereidt den weg des Heeren, maakt Zijn paden recht!

4 En dezelve Johannes had zijn kleding van kemelshaar, en een lederen gordel om zijn lenden; en zijn voedsel was sprinkhanen en wilde honig.

5 Toen is tot hem uitgegaan Jeruzalem en geheel Judea, en het gehele land rondom de Jordaan;

6 En werden van hem gedoopt in de Jordaan, belijdende hun zonden.

7 Hij dan, ziende velen van de Farizeen en Sadduceen tot zijn doop komen, sprak tot hen: Gij adderengebroedsels! wie heeft u aangewezen te vlieden van den toekomenden toorn?