Luke 3:12-28

¹²Even tax-gatherers came to be baptised, 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, baptise you with water; but there is coming one more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to unfasten his sandals. He will baptise 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.”

¹⁸And so with many different appeals John told his good news to the people.

¹⁹But Prince Herod, being rebuked by John respecting Herodias, the wife of Herod's brother, and for all the evil things that he had done,

²⁰crowned them all by shutting John up in prison.

²¹Now after the baptism of all the people, and when Jesus had been baptised and was still praying, the heavens opened,

²²and the Holy Spirit came down on him in the form of a dove, and from the heavens came a voice — “You are my dearly loved son; you bring me great joy.”

²³When beginning his work, Jesus was about thirty years old. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, whose ancestors were — Eli,

²⁴Mattith, Levi, Melchiah, Janna, Joseph,

²⁵Mattithiah, Amos, Nahum, Azaliah, Nogah,

²⁶Mattith, Mattithiah, Shimei, Joseph, Josheh,

²⁷Johanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Salathiel, Neriah,

²⁸Melchiah, Addi, Cosam, Elmodam, Er,