Luke 3:12-28

¹²And the publicans also came to be baptized, and said to him: Master, what shall we do?

¹³But he said to them: Do nothing more than that which is appointed you.

¹⁴And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man; neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.

¹⁵And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ;

¹⁶John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water; but there shall come one mightier that I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

¹⁷Whose fan is in his hand, and he will purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

¹⁸And many other things exhorting, did he preach to the people.

¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done;

²⁰He added this also above all, and shut up John in prison.

²¹Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened;

²²And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape, as a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

²³And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years; being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat,

²⁴Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi, who was of Janne, who was of Joseph,

²⁵Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of Hesli, who was of Nagge,

²⁶Who was of Mahath, who was of Mathathias, who was of Semei, who was of Joseph, who was of Juda,

²⁷Who was of Joanna, who was of Reza, who was of Zorobabel, who was of Salathiel, who was of Neri,

²⁸Who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who was of Cosan, who was of Helmadan, who was of Her,