Luke 3:12-28

¹²Well even tax collectors came to be baptized by him and said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

¹³So He said to them, “Don't charge more than what was determined to you.”

¹⁴So the soldiers started asking him too: “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Don't extort or harass anyone, and be content with your wages.”

¹⁵Now as the people were expectant and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he just might be the Messiah,

¹⁶John anticipated them all saying: “I indeed am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire;

¹⁷whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

¹⁸(Indeed, with many other exhortations as well he kept on preaching to the people;

¹⁹but Herod the tetrarch—being reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, as also about all the wicked things that Herod perpetrated—

²⁰added this also to them all: he actually locked John up in his prison.)

²¹Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus, having been baptized also, was praying, when the heaven was opened

²²and the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove and rested upon Him, and a Voice came out of heaven saying, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am always well pleased.”

²³(Beginning His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (so it was supposed) a son of Joseph, Jesus Himself was of Eli,

²⁴of Matthan, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph,

²⁵of Mattathiah, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai,

²⁶of Maath, of Mattathiah, of Semei, of Joseph, of Judah,

²⁷of Joannan, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shealtiel, of Neri,

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