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# to be baptized by him
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"for John to baptize them"
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# You offspring of vipers
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Vipers are poisonous snakes that are dangerous and represent evil. Here "offspring of" means "being like." Alternate translation: "You evil poisonous snakes" or "You are evil, like poisonous snakes"
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# Who warned you ... coming?
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John was rebuking the people because they wanted him to baptize them, but they did not want to stop sinning. Alternate translation: "You cannot flee from God's wrath like this!" or "You cannot escape from God's wrath just by being baptized!"
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# from the wrath that is coming
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"from the punishment that God is sending" or "from God's wrath on which he is about to act"
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