Confession Without Extenuation
H. W. Beecher. Matthew 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. Men's faults lie like reptiles — like toads, like lizards, like serpents; and what if there is over them the evening sky, lit with glory, and all aglow? All the gorgeousness of the departing day, shining down on a reptile, leaves it a reptile still. Men think, "I am generous; I am full of fine feelings; I am endowed with superior taste; " but what of that? Down in the very thicket; down where men do not love often to go — there their faults lie nestling. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. WEB: They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.