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MATTHEW MARK LUKE JOHN
which were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou
then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? John answered them, • [a]nd preached, •
saying, • unto them all, • I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: • [B]ut there standeth one
among you, whom ye know not; • [t]here cometh one mightier • he that cometh after me is mightier
than I, • [h]e it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, • the latchet of whose shoes I am not
worthy to • stoop down and unloose • to bear: • I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost • and with fire: • Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge
his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; • but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
fire. • And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. • These things were done
in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. • But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by
him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, [a]dded yet this
above all, that he shut up John in prison.
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