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and confessing their sins, were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.

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Verse part Definition: Part of speech: Strong's: Greek: Transliteration:
were being baptized Literal: to dip, submerge, but specifically of ceremonial dipping; to baptize. V-IIM/P-3P H907 ἐβαπτίζοντο ebaptizonto
Jordan The Jordan, a great river flowing due south and bounding Galilee, Samaria, and Judea on the east. N-DMS H2446 Ἰορδάνῃ iordanē
River. A river, torrent, stream. N-DMS H4215 ποταμῷ potamō
confessing (a) to consent fully, agree out and out, (b) to confess, admit, acknowledge (cf. the early Hellenistic sense of the middle: to acknowledge a debt), (c) to give thanks, praise. V-PPM-NMP H1843 ἐξομολογούμενοι exomologoumenoi
sins, Properly: missing the mark; hence: (a) guilt, sin, (b) a fault, failure (in an ethical sense), sinful deed. N-AFP H266 ἁμαρτίας amartias

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Berean Bible and confessing their sins, were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.
King James Bible and And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins, were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.sins.
Hebrew Greek English and confessing their sins, they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.River, as they confessed their sins.
New American Standard Bible 1995 and confessing their sins, they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.River, as they confessed their sins.