Luke 3:15-20

15 The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah.
16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with[a] water. 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[b] the Holy Spirit and fire.
17 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.”
18 And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.
19 But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done,
20 Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.

Cross References 8

  • 1. S Matthew 3:1
  • 2. John 1:19,20; Acts 13:25
  • 3. ver 3; S Mark 1:4
  • 4. John 1:26,33; Acts 1:5; Acts 2:3; Acts 11:16; Acts 19:4
  • 5. Isaiah 30:24
  • 6. Matthew 13:30; S Matthew 25:41
  • 7. ver 1; S Matthew 14:1
  • 8. S Matthew 14:3,4; Mark 6:17-18

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