15. While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,
16. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming – I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
17. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
18. And in this way, with many other exhortations, John proclaimed good news to the people.
19. But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,
20. Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.
21. Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,