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and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
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And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
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I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and [in] fire:
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whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
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Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
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But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
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But Jesus answering said unto him,
Suffer [it] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.
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And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him;
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and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.