Luke 3:12-28

¹²Then tax-farmers came to him for baptism and said to him, Master, what have we to do?

¹³And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

¹⁴And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.

¹⁵And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,

¹⁶John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

¹⁷In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

¹⁸And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;

¹⁹But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

²⁰Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.

²¹Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,

²²The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

²³And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

²⁴The son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

²⁵The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

²⁶The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

²⁷The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

²⁸The son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,