5. Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan.
6. Confessing their sins, they were being immersed by him in the Jordan River.
7. But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8. Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance;
9. and do not think that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’! For I tell you that from these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.