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16 John answered them all, |I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, 17 whose 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 Then with many other warnings he announced the Good News to the people, 19 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, 20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. 21 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying |You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.| 23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son, as was supposed, of Joseph, of Eli, 24 of Mattat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Jannai, of Joseph, 25 of Mattithiah, of Amos, of Nahum, of Hesli, of Naggai, 26 of Mahath, of Mattithiah, of Shimei, of Joseph, of Judah, 27 of Joanan, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shealtiel, of Neri, 28 of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, of Er, 29 of Josi, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Mattat, of Levi, 30 of Simeon, of Judah, of Joseph, of Jehonan, of Eliakim, 31 of Maleah, of Menan, of Mattattah, of Nathan, of David, 32 of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Salmon, of Nahshon, 33 of Amminadab, of Ram, of Hezron, of Perez, of Judah, 34 of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nahor, 35 of Serug, of Reu, of Peleg, of Eber, of Shelah, 36 of Kenan, of Arpachshad, of Shem, of Noah, of Lamech, 37 of Methuselah, of Hanoch, of Jared, of Mahalalel, of Kenan, 38 of Enosh, of Seth, of Adam, of God. Luke 3:16-38, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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