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Matthew 3:12-16 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

12. whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

13. Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised of him;

14. but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me?

15. But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers him.

16. And Jesus, having been baptised, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him:

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