16. John answered them all, saying, “I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.
17. His winnowing fan is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
18. Exhorting them in many other ways, he preached good news to the people.
19. Now Herod the tetrarch, who had been censured by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds Herod had committed,
20. added still another to these by [also] putting John in prison.
21. After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened
22. and the holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
23. When Jesus began his ministry he was about thirty years of age. He was the son, as was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli,