Luke 3:12-28

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

¹³And he said to them, Do ye nothing more, than that that is ordained to you.

¹⁴And the knights asked him, and said, What shall also we do? And he said to them, Smite ye wrongfully no man, neither make ye false challenge, and be ye satisfied with your wages.

¹⁵When all the people guessed, and all men thought in their hearts of John, lest peradventure he were Christ,

¹⁶John answered, and said to all men, I baptize you in water; but a stronger than I shall come after me, of whom I am not worthy to unbind the lace or the thong of his shoes; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.

¹⁷Whose winnowing tool, or fan, is in his hand, and he shall purge his floor of corn or his cornfloor, and shall gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he shall burn with fire unquenchable.

¹⁸And many other things also he spake, and preached or evangelized to the people.

¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, when he was blamed of John for Herodias, the wife of his brother, and for all the evils that Herod did,

²⁰he increased this over all, and shut John in prison.

²¹And it was done, when all the people was baptized, and when Jesus was baptized, and prayed, heaven was opened.

²²And the Holy Ghost came down in bodily likeness, as a dove on him; and a voice was made from heaven, Thou art my dearworthy Son, in thee it hath well pleased to me.

²³And Jesus himself was beginning as of thirty years, that he was guessed the son of Joseph, which was of Heli,

²⁴which was of Matthat, which was of Levi, which was of Melchi, that was of Janna, that was of Joseph,

²⁵that was of Mattathias, that was of Amos, that was of Nahum, that was of Esli, that was of Naggai,

²⁶that was of Maath, that was of Mattathias, that was of Semein, that was of Joseph, that was of Joda,

²⁷that was of Joanna, that was of Rhesa, that was of Zerubbabel, that was of Salathiel, that was of Neri,

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