3:5 Then people from Jerusalem, 1 as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,
3:6 and he was baptizing them 2 in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
1 tnGrk “Then Jerusalem.”
2 tnGrk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style.