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For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire.
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And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do?
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And he answering, said to them: He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like manner.
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And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him: Master, what shall we do?
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But he said to them: Do nothing more than that which is appointed you.
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And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.
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And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ:
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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: