orthjbc - Matthew:3

orthjbc@Matthew:3:1 @ Now in those days Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva appears, preaching, crying out as a maggid (note:)preacher(:note) [for the Moshiach] in the midbar wilderness of Yehudah,

orthjbc@Matthew:3:2 @ saying, "Make teshuva, for the Malchut HaShomayim has come near."

orthjbc@Matthew:3:3 @ For this is the one spoken of through Yeshayah the Navi, saying, KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR (note:)"A voice of one shouting in the wilderness," YESHAYAH strkjv@40:3(:note): `Prepare the Derech Hashem the way of the L-rd. Make his paths straight!`"

orthjbc@Matthew:3:4 @ Now Yochanan himself had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was arbe (note:)locusts(:note) and devash wild honey.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:5 @ Then all Yerushalayim and all Yehudah and the whole region of the Yarden were going out to him.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:6 @ Making vidduy (note:)confession(:note) [to Hashem] of their averos sins, they were submitted to a tevilah immersion by him, using the Yarden River as a mikveh mayim.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:7 @ But when he saw many of the Perushim and Tzedukim coming to where he was using the Yarden as a mikveh mayim, he said to them, "You yeladim of nachashim (note:)snakes(:note)! Who warned you to flee from the charon af [Hashem] habah the coming burning wrath of Hashem?

orthjbc@Matthew:3:8 @ "Produce p'ri tov l'teshuva (note:)fruit worthy of repentance(:note)!

orthjbc@Matthew:3:9 @ "Do not presume to say to yourselves, `We have the yichus (note:)proud lineage(:note), we have the zechut Avot merit of the Fathers of Avraham Avinu our father Abraham.` For I say to you that Hashem is able to raise up from these avanim stones banim sons of Avraham.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:10 @ "And already the ax is laid at the shoresh haAitzim (note:)the root of the trees(:note); therefore, every aitz not producing p'ri tov good fruit is cut down and thrown into the aish fire.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:11 @ "I give you a tevilah (note:)immersion(:note) in a mikveh mayim for teshuva, but Hu HaBah He who Comes, i.e. Moshiach after me has more koach power than me. I am not worthy to remove his sandals. He will give you a tevilah immersion with the Ruach Hakodesh and aish fire.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:12 @ "The winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing floor, and he will gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable aish (note:)fire(:note)." THE TEVILAH OF THE KOHEN MOSHIACH IN THE MIKVEH MAYIM OF THE YARDEN RIVER SEE TEHILLIM strkjv@110:1-4; VAYIKRA strkjv@16:4,24; DANIEL strkjv@9:24

orthjbc@Matthew:3:13 @ Then Yehoshua comes from the Galil to the Yarden to Yochanan, to submit to Yochanan's tevilah (note:)immersion(:note).

orthjbc@Matthew:3:14 @ But Yochanan would have deterred him, saying, "I have need to submit to your tevilah (note:)immersion(:note), and yet you come to me?"

orthjbc@Matthew:3:15 @ But answering him, Yehoshua said, "Permit it now, for thus it is proper to fulfill all Tzidkat Hashem [DANIEL strkjv@9:24]."

orthjbc@Matthew:3:16 @ And having received the tevilah in the Yarden's mikveh mayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach immediately came up. And--hinei!--the Shomayim were opened to him, and he saw the Ruach Hashem descending like a yonah (note:)dove(:note) and coming upon him.

orthjbc@Matthew:3:17 @ And, hinei, a bat kol (note:)daughter of a voice, Divine voice(:note) came out of Shomayim, saying, ZEH BNI AHUVI ASHER BO CHAFATSTI "This is my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased" *.