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John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;
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Whose fan is in his hand: and he will purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his barn: but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
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And many other things exhorting did he preach to the people.
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But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done:
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He added this also above all and shut up John in prison.
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Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened.
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And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape, as a dove, upon him. And a voice came from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son. In thee I am well pleased.
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And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat,
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Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi. who was of Janne, who was of Joseph,
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Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of Hesli, who was of Nagge,
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Who was of Mahath, who was of Mathathias, who was of Semei, who was of Joseph, who was of Juda,