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11 I ritually cleanse you through baptism[a] as a mark of turning your life around. But someone is coming after me, someone whose sandals I am not fit to carry, someone who is more powerful than I. He will wash[b] you not in water but in fire and with the Holy Spirit. 12 He carries a winnowing fork in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor; He will gather up the good wheat in His barn, and He will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.

13 And then, the One of whom John spoke—the all-powerful Jesus—came to the Jordan from Galilee to be washed[c] by John.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:11 Literally, immerse, to show repentance
  2. 3:11 Literally, immerse, in a rite of initiation and purification
  3. 3:13 Literally, immersed, to show repentance

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