Story of John the BaptistMatthew 3:1-17
1 hand · 1641
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
Matthew 3:1
What it depicts
Matthew 3:1-17Opened by a notation lookup, not by an editor. Iconclass 73C1 glosses this subject as “story of John the Baptist (Matthew 3; Mark 1:4-11; Luke 3:1-22; John 1:19-34)”, and this library reads the Douay-Rheims, where the passage stands at Matthew 3:1-17. Iconclass states 4 references for this subject; the first one this corpus holds is used.
1And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
2And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
4And the same John had his garment of camels’ hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
5Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan:
6And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?
8Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
10For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.
11I indeed baptize you in the water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him.
14But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
15And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.
16And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.
17And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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Not yet checkedSuggested by an AI model, 2026-09-08 (hf.co/mradermacher/iconclass-vlm-GGUF:Q4_K_M), asked “Generate Iconclass labels for this image”. No one has checked these against the picture yet.
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- Subject
- Story of John the BaptistMatthew 3:1-17joined by Abe Garcia
- Iconclass
- 73C121
- Wikidata depicts
- Jesus Christ, John the Baptist
Means
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Rights
- Credit
- Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- Evidence
- NationalGalleryOfArt/opendata: object 32692 has an open-access image (published_images.csv, openaccess=1, uuid 0ad4855e-760a-476f-bbbb-8164f430b4ec); NGA's open data is CC0 (read 2026-09-01)
- Record
- https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.32692.html
How this join was made
National Gallery of Art gives this object the Iconclass notation73C121, and the library's map reads that notation as Matthew 3:1-17. An editor has checked the picture against the passage and confirmed it.
Poussin's Baptism of Christ, from the Seven Sacraments. The Baptist is the hand pouring, so the picture stands in his story as well as in Christ's.
Also by Nicolas Poussin
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Within fifty years of 1641/1642
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Also at National Gallery of Art
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Similar picturesFound by visual likeness
8 picturesVisual resemblances suggested by the model. A match does not establish a shared subject or historical connection.
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Depicts
- Story of John the BaptistPoussin's Baptism of Christ, from the Seven Sacraments. The Baptist is the hand pouring, so the picture stands in his story as well as in Christ's.