¹⁶ Therefore confess your sins^(A) to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.^(B) The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.^(C)

⁶ Confessing their sins, they were baptized^(A) by him in the Jordan River.

⁵ The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

¹⁸ Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done.