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John answered all, saying, *I* indeed baptise you with water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose; *he* shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit and fire;
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whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
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Exhorting then many other things also he announced [his] glad tidings to the people.
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But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,
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added this also to all [the rest], that he shut up John in prison.
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And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,
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and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.
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And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,
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of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph,
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of Mattathias, of Amos, of Naoum, of Esli, of Naggai,
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of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,