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His winnowing fork 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.”
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The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John could be the Christ.
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John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
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His winnowing fork 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.”
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With these and many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people.
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But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
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