10. The ax is now ready to cut down the trees. Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
11. “I baptize you with water to show that you have changed your hearts and lives. But there is someone coming later who is able to do more than I can. I am not good enough to be the slave who takes off his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
12. He will come ready to clean the grain. He will separate the good grain from the straw, and he will put the good part into his barn. Then he will burn the useless part with a fire that cannot be stopped.”
13. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan River. He came to John, wanting John to baptize him.
14. But John tried to stop him. John said, “Why do you come to me to be baptized? I should be baptized by you!”