3:11 “I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy 2 to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 3 3:12 His winnowing fork 4 is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, 5 but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” 6
3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River. 7 3:14 But John 8 tried to prevent 9 him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?” 3:15 So Jesus replied 10 to him, “Let it happen now, 11 for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John 12 yielded 13 to him.