¹⁷ His winnowing fork^(A) 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.”^{(B) 18} And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.

¹⁹ But when John rebuked Herod^(C) the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done,