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And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?'
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and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.'
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And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?'
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and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.'
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And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'
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And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;
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John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;
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whose winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
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And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,
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and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,
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added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.