Luke 3:12-28

¹²And tax-gatherers came also to be baptised, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?

¹³And he said to them, Take no more money than what is appointed to you.

¹⁴And persons engaged in military service also asked him saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.

¹⁵But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether he might be the Christ,

¹⁶John answered all, saying, I indeed baptise you with water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose; he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire;

¹⁷whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

¹⁸Exhorting then many other things also he announced his glad tidings to the people.

¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,

²⁰added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.

²¹And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,

²²and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.

²³And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,

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

²⁵of Mattathias, of Amos, of Naoum, of Esli, of Naggai,

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

²⁷of Joannes, of Resa, of Zorobabel, of Salathiel, of Neri,

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