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THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea, ²and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is nigh. ³For this is the person spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying⁵, “The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths strait.” ⁴Now this John had his garment made of camel’s hair, and a girdle of leather about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

⁵Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the regions about Jordan, ⁶and were baptized by him in Jordan, on making confession of their sins. ⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O ye broods of vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸Produce then worthy fruits of repentance: ⁹and think not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say unto you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ¹⁰And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: every tree therefore which produceth not good fruit, is hewing down, and casting into the fire. ¹¹I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire: ¹²whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will collect the wheat into his granary; but the chaff will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

¹³Then came Jesus from Galilee unto Jordan to John, that he might be baptized by him. ¹⁴But John earnestly withheld him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? ¹⁵But Jesus answering said unto him, Permit it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he permitted him. ¹⁶And Jesus, after his baptism, came straight from the water: and lo! the heavens were opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as it were a dove, and coming upon him: ¹⁷and lo! a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my Son, the beloved, in whom is my delight.