He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”

John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,

(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!