16. John answered them all by saying, I baptize you with water; but He Who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of Whose sandals I am not fit to unfasten. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
17. His winnowing shovel (fork) is in His hand to thoroughly clear and cleanse His [threshing] floor and to gather the wheat and store it in His granary, but the chaff He will burn with fire that cannot be extinguished.
18. So with many other [various] appeals and admonitions he preached the good news (the Gospel) to the people.
19. But Herod the tetrarch, who had been [repeatedly] told about his fault and reproved with rebuke producing conviction by [John] for [having] Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the wicked things that Herod had done,
20. Added this to them all–that he shut up John in prison.
21. Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized, and [while He was still] praying, the [visible] heaven was opened
22. And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are My Son, My Beloved! In You I am well pleased and find delight! [Ps. 2:7; Isa. 42:1.]
23. Jesus Himself, when He began [His ministry], was about thirty years of age, being the Son, as was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Heli,
24. The son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
25. The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
26. The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
27. The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
28. The son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,