5. Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
6. They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8. Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
9. Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
10. “Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.