Luke 3:15–22 · BSB
3:15
The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John could be the Christ.
3:16
John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
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3:17
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
3:18
With these and many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people.
3:19
But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
3:20
Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.
3:21
When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,
3:22
and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
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