¹⁰ Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain^[a] of the Jordan^(A) as far as Zoar^(B) was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden^(C) and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)^(D)

³ He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan,^(A) proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,^(B)