Mateus 3

1 Now in those days Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva appears, darshenen (preaching) as a mevaser (herald)*3:1 for the Moshiach in the midbar (wilderness) of Yehudah, 2 saying, Make teshuva, for the Malchut HaShomayim has come near. 3 For this*3:3 Yochanan is the one spoken of through Yeshayah the Navi, saying, KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR*3:3 Isa 40:3 (A voice of one shouting in the wilderness): Prepare the Derech Hashem (the way of the L-rd). Make his paths straight! 4 Now Yochanan himself had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was arbe (locusts) and devash (wild honey). 5 Then all Yerushalayim and all Yehudah and the whole region of the Yarden were going out to him. 6 Making vidduy (confession of sin)*3:6 to Hashem of their averos (sins), they were submitted to a tevilah (immersion) by him, using the Yarden River as a mikveh mayim (gathering of water).