Luke 3:4-18

⁴As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah, the prophet, The voice of a crier or The voice of one crying in desert, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, make ye his paths right.

⁵Each valley shall be full-filled, and every hill or mountain and little hill shall be made low; and shrewd things shall be into dressed things, and sharp things into plain ways;

⁶and every flesh or each man shall see the health of God.

⁷Therefore he said to the people, which went out to be baptized of him, Kindlings of adders, who showed to you to flee from the wrath to coming? or to come?

⁸Therefore do ye worthy fruits of penance, and begin ye not to say, We have a father Abraham; for I say to you, that God is mighty to raise of these stones the sons of Abraham.

⁹And now an ax is set or is put to the root of the tree; and therefore every tree that maketh not good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.

¹⁰And the people asked him, and said, What then shall we do?

¹¹He answered, and said to them, He that hath two coats, give he to him that hath none; and he that hath meats, do in like manner.

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.