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11 I am baptizing you with[a] water for repentance, but the One coming after me is more powerful than me, of Whom I am not fit to carry the sandals. He will baptize you with[b] the Holy Spirit and fire[c] 12 Whose winnowing-tool is in His hand, and He will cleanse-out His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But He will burn up the chaff with an inextinguishable fire”.

When Jesus Is Baptized, The Spirit Descends Upon Him And His Father Expresses His Pleasure

13 Then Jesus comes from Galilee to the Jordan to John that He might be baptized by him.

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  1. Matthew 3:11 Or, in.
  2. Matthew 3:11 Or, in.
  3. Matthew 3:11 This fire of judgment may be with regard to unbelievers, the chaff mentioned next, or with regard to the purifying work of the Spirit on believers.

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