Luke 3:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶John answered everyone, “I baptize you with water, but there is one coming later who can do more than I can. I am not good enough to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. ¹⁷He will come ready to clean the grain. He will separate the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn. Then he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”^[a] ¹⁸And John continued to preach the Good News, saying many other things to encourage the people.

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Footnotes

3:17 He will . . . out. This means that Jesus will come to separate the good people from the bad people, saving the good and punishing the bad.

Luke 3:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶John answered them all, “I baptize you with^[a] water.^(A) But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with^[b] the Holy Spirit and fire.^(B) ¹⁷His winnowing fork^(C) is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”^(D) ¹⁸And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.