Mat 3:1 | JFB | STEP | 1. In those days —of Christ's secluded life at Nazareth, where the last chapter left Him. came John the Baptist, preaching —about six months before his Master. in the wilderness of Judea —the desert valley of the Jordan, thinly peopled and bare in pasture, a little north of Jerusalem.

Matthew 3:1

1. In those days—of Christ's secluded life at Nazareth, where the last chapter left Him.

came John the Baptist, preaching—about six months before his Master.

in the wilderness of Judea—the desert valley of the Jordan, thinly peopled and bare in pasture, a little north of Jerusalem.