4 Now John wore clothing from camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan.
6 Confessing their sins, they were being immersed by him in the Jordan River.
7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8 Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance;
9 and do not think that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’! For I tell you that from these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
10 Already the axe is laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire!