Matthew Chapter 3 verse 5 Holy Bible
Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about the Jordan;
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Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;
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Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,
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Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
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Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
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Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Then. Not merely temporal, as probably in ver. 13, but almost consequential, "thereupon"; so also ver. 15; Matthew 2:7, 16. John's preaching and manner of life were not without effect. Went out; ἐξεπορεύετο (similar in the parallels). Our Lord, when referring to this (Matthew 11:7, 8, 9), uses the commoner ἐξήλθατε, merely indicating the crowds leaving for a while their present surroundings. The synoptists here point rather to the trouble involved and the distance traversed (cf. Mark 6:11 with 12). The singular is used (as often in the Hebrew) because the writer's first thought was of Jerusalem; the other parts were added as an afterthought. All (cf. Matthew 8:34); i.e. from all parts and in large numbers. Judaea. Strictly speaking, this would, of course, include part of the next expression, but the reference here is especially to the hill-country. And all the region round about Jordan; i.e. the inhabitants of the Ghor, the Jordan valley. They presumably came from either side of the river. "Strabo, concerning the plain bordering on Jordan, hath these words: It is a place of an hundred furlongs, all well watered, and full of dwellings" (John Lightfoot, 'Her. Heb.').
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) All the region round about Jordan.--This would include the whole length of the river-valley, and would therefore take in parts of Peraea, Samaria, Galilee, and Gaulonitis.
