Discovery BoxMatthew 3:6 
Context3:6 and he was baptizing them 1 in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
Matthew 3:13
Context3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River. 2
Matthew 4:25
Context4:25 And large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, 3 Jerusalem, 4 Judea, and beyond the Jordan River. 5
1 tn Grk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style.
2 tn “River” is not in the Greek text but is supplied for clarity.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated before each of the places in the list, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.
sn The Decapolis refers to a league of towns (originally consisting of ten; the Greek name literally means “ten towns”) whose region (except for Scythopolis) lay across the Jordan River.
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn “River” is not in the Greek text but is supplied for clarity. The region referred to here is sometimes known as Transjordan (i.e., “across the Jordan”).
