and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.
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