¹⁵And while^* the people were waiting expectantly and all were pondering in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he might be the Christ,^d ¹⁶John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than I am is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹⁷His winnowing shovel is in his hand, to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

¹⁸So with many other exhortations also he proclaimed good news to the people. ¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother’s wife, and concerning all the evil deeds that Herod had done, ²⁰added this also to them all: he also locked up John in prison.

The Baptism of Jesus

²¹Now it happened that when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while he^* was praying, heaven was opened, ²²and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

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Footnotes

*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“were waiting expectantly”)
dOr “Messiah”
*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was praying”)