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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David, |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. |
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