He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”

Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night.

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.