¹⁵Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were questioning in their hearts whether John might be the Messiah.^k ¹⁶John answered them all,^l “I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I am is coming. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with^A the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹⁷His winnowing shovel^m is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn,ⁿ but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”^o ¹⁸Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people. ¹⁹But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch^p because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,^q ²⁰Herod added this to everything else—he locked up John in prison.^r

THE BAPTISM OF JESUS

²¹When all the people were baptized,^s Jesus also was baptized. As he was praying,^t heaven opened,^u ²²and the Holy Spirit descended on him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.”^v

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Cross references

k Jn 1:19–20
l Mt 3:11–12; Mk 1:7–8
m Is 30:24
n Mt 13:29–30
o Mk 9:43,48
p Mt 14:3; Mk 6:17
q Mt 14:1; Lk 3:1
r Jn 3:24
s Mt 3:13–17; Mk 1:9–11
t Mt 14:23; Lk 5:16; 9:18,28–29
u Jn 1:51; Ac 7:55; 10:11; Rv 19:11
v Ps 2:7; Is 42:1; Mt 3:17; 17:5; Mk 1:11; Lk 9:35; 2Pt 1:17