Luke 3:16-38 ▼

16 John answered to all, saying, I truly immerse you with water; and he stronger than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to loose his shoes' strings: he shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit and fire:

17 Whose winnowing fan in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather the wheat into his store; and the chaff he will burn down with inextinguishable fire.

18 And then truly many other things beseeching, he evangelized the people.

19 And Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod did,

20 And he added this to all, and shut up John in prison.

21 And it was in all the people having been immersed, and Jesus having been immersed, and praying, heaven was opened,

22 And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and there was a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my dearly loved Son; in thee I was contented.

23 And Jesus himself was beginning about thirty years, being, as was thought, the son of Joseph, of Eli,

24 Of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph,

25 Of Mattathias, of Amos, of Naum, of Esli, of Naggai,

26 Of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,

27 Of Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zorobabel, of Salathiel, of Neri,

28 Of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, of Er,

29 Of Jose, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi,

30 Of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph, of Jonan, of Eliakim,

31 Of Melea, of Menan, of Mattatha, of Nathan, of David,

32 Of Jesse, of Obed, of Booz, of Salmon, of Naasson,

33 Of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,

34 Of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Thara, of Nachor,

35 Of Saruch, of Ragau, of Phalec, of Eber, of Sala,

36 Of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Sem, of Noe, of Lamech,

37 Of Mathusala, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan,

38 Of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, of God.