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Religious leaders approach along the riverbank, seen past the back of John’s outer robe.
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Matthew 3:7

A Challenge to the Leaders

John’s Call and Jesus’s Baptism · Matthew 3

Story guide: The approach and the rebuke have separate images; the warning is spoken without literal snakes in the scene.

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7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “Offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”

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