Luke 3:15-22

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵ Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were questioning in their hearts whether John might be the Messiah.^{(A) 16} John answered them all,^(B) “I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I am is coming. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with^[a] the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹⁷ His winnowing shovel^(C) is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn,^(D) but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”^{(E) 18} Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people. ¹⁹ But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch^(F) because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,^{(G) 20} Herod added this to everything else—he locked up John in prison.^(H)

The Baptism of Jesus

²¹ When all the people were baptized,^(I) Jesus also was baptized. As he was praying,^(J) heaven opened,^{(K) 22} and the Holy Spirit descended on him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.”^(L)