16. John responded by saying to everyone: "Indeed, I baptize you with water. But there will arrive one stronger than me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit, and with fire.
17. His winnowing fan is in his hand. And he will purify his threshing floor. And he will gather the wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
18. Indeed, he also proclaimed many other things, exhorting the people.
19. But Herod the tetrarch, when he was corrected by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, and concerning all the evils that Herod had done,
20. added this also, above all else: that he confined John to prison.
21. Now it happened that, when all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized; and as he was praying, heaven was opened.
22. And the Holy Spirit, in a corporal appearance like a dove, descended upon him. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my beloved Son. In you, I am well pleased."
23. And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old, being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Matthat,
24. who was of Levi, who was of Melchi, who was of Jannai, who was of Joseph,
25. who was of Mattathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of Esli, who was of Naggai,
26. who was of Maath, who was of Mattathias, who was of Semein, who was of Josech, who was of Joda,
27. who was of Joanan, who was of Rhesa, who was of Zerubbabel, who was of Shealtiel, who was of Neri,
28. who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who was of Cosam, who was of Elmadam, who was of Er,
29. who was of Joshua, who was of Eliezer, who was of Jorim, who was of Matthat, who was of Levi,
30. who was of Simeon, who was of Judah, who was of Joseph, who was of Jonam, who was of Eliakim,