Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
So great was the celebrity of St. John's sanctity, so much did his mortified life, and powerful preaching, weigh upon the minds of the people, that all wished to receive baptism at his hands. (Haydock)