Save yourselves. This was why he urged them with many other words. True, they could not EARN their salvation [only Jesus could do that for them], but their faith was to reach our through turning from sin and being baptized. This was an act of their FREE WILL (compare the "looking" of John 3:14). This wicked people. Those of the Jewish nation who had rejected Christ [and would continue to reject him (Matthew 23:36; Matthew 24:21; Deuteronomy 28:52-57)].

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