5. Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,
6. and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
7. But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8. Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,
9. and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!