Luke 3:15–22

¹⁵Now while the people were in a state of expectation and all were reasoning in their hearts about John, ^aas to whether he was the ¹Christ,

^16aJohn answered, saying to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the strap of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

¹⁷“His ^awinnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with ^bunquenchable fire.”

¹⁸So with many other exhortations he proclaimed the gospel to the people.

¹⁹But when ^aHerod the tetrarch was reproved by him because of ^bHerodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the wicked things which ^cHerod had done,

²⁰Herod also added this to them all: ^ahe locked John up in prison.

The Baptism of Jesus

^21aNow it happened that when all the people were being baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was ^bpraying, heaven was opened,

²²and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, “^aYou are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”