¹⁵The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John^y might possibly be the Messiah.^z ¹⁶John answered them all, “I baptize you with^b water.^a But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with^c the Holy Spirit and fire.^b ¹⁷His winnowing fork^c is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”^d ¹⁸And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.

¹⁹But when John rebuked Herod^e the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, ²⁰Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.^f

The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus

3:21,22pp—Mt 3:13–17; Mk 1:9–11 3:23–38pp—Mt 1:1–17

²¹When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying,^g heaven was opened ²²and the Holy Spirit descended on him^h in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son,ⁱ whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”^j

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Footnotes

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Cross references

ySee Mt 3:1
z Jn 1:19, 20; Ac 13:25
aver 3; See Mk 1:4
b Jn 1:26, 33; Ac 1:5; 2:3; 11:16; 19:4
c Isa 30:24
d Mt 13:30; See 25:41
ever 1; See Mt 14:1
fSee Mt 14:3, 4
g Mt 14:23; Mk 1:35; 6:46; Lk 5:16; 6:12; 9:18, 28; 11:1
h Isa 42:1; Jn 1:32, 33; Ac 10:38
iSee Mt 3:17
jSee Mt 3:17