Luke 3:10-17

¹⁰“What are we to do then?” the people asked.

¹¹“Let anyone who has two coats,” answered John, “share with the person who has none; and anyone who has food do the same.”

¹²Even tax-gatherers came to be baptized, and said to John, “Teacher, what are we to do?”

¹³“Do not collect more than you have authority to demand,” John answered.

¹⁴And when some soldiers on active service asked “And we — what are we to do?” he said, “Never use violence, or exact anything by false accusation; and be content with your pay.”

¹⁵Then, while the people were in suspense, and were all debating with themselves whether John could be the Christ,

¹⁶John, addressing them all, said, “I, indeed, baptize you with water; but there is coming one more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to unfasten his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

¹⁷His winnowing-fan is in his hand so that he may clear his threshing-floor, and store the grain in his barn, but the chaff he will burn with a fire that cannot be put out.”