11 (A)[a]Indeed I baptize you with water to [b]amendment of life, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

12 [c]Which hath his fan in his hand, and will [d]make clean his floor, and gather his wheat into his garner, but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

13 (B)[e]Then came Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:11 We may neither dwell upon the signs which God hath ordained as means to lead us unto our salvation, neither upon them: but we must climb up to the matter itself, that is to say, to Christ, who inwardly worketh that effectually, which is outwardly signified unto us.
  2. Matthew 3:11 The outward sign putteth us in mind of this, that we must change our lives and become better, assuring us as by a seal, that we are engrafted into Christ; whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth up, Rom. 6:4.
  3. Matthew 3:12 The triumphs of the wicked shall end in everlasting torment.
  4. Matthew 3:12 Will cleanse it thoroughly, and make a full riddance.
  5. Matthew 3:13 Christ sanctified our baptism in himself.

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