All Judea Went Out
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καὶ ἐξεπορεύετο πρὸς αὐτὸν πᾶσα ἡ Ἰουδαία χώρα καὶ οἱ Ἱεροσολυμεῖται πάντες, καὶ ἐβαπτίζοντο ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ Ἰορδάνῃ ποταμῷ ἐξομολογούμενοι τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν.
And the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem kept going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mark's habitual exaggeration — everyone, all of them — and a verb about speaking one's failures out loud.
<p>Both verbs are imperfect — <em>kept going out</em>, <em>were being dipped</em> — a continuous stream rather than a single occasion. English past tenses flatten this; Young's Literal Translation is the PD witness that most consistently tries to keep it.</p><p><span class="gk">ἐξομολογέω</span> is built from "out" + "same-speaking": to say the same thing openly, to agree out loud. In the documentary papyri surveyed by Moulton and Milligan the verb group is ordinary language for acknowledging a debt or a receipt. The confessional sense in English carries an institution with it that the Greek word does not.</p>
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