ELENA

JOHN PREACHED REPENTANCE. NOTE THAT A MAN MUST FIRST REPENT, THEN BARE FRUIT. AND THE FRUIT MUST BE WORTHY (DESERVING), CONSISTENT WITH REPENTANCE, FRUIT THAT SHOWS A CHANGED HEART AND A TURNING AWAY FROM SIN. John demands the evidence or fruit of repentance, not merely the religious statusquo. Decades later, Jesus" brother James put it another way, "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:17, 26