11 (A)I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. (B)He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit [a]and fire. 12 (C)His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will (D)burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

John Baptizes Jesus(E)

13 (F)Then Jesus came (G)from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

16 (H)When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and [b]He saw (I)the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 (J)And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, (K)“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:11 M omits and fire
  2. Matthew 3:16 Or he

16 “Woe to you, (A)blind guides, who say, (B)‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it. 17 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold (C)or the temple that [a]sanctifies the gold? 18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it. 19 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift (D)or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore he who [b]swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by (E)Him who [c]dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by (F)the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (G)For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and (H)have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:17 NU sanctified
  2. Matthew 23:20 Swears an oath
  3. Matthew 23:21 M dwelt

Jesus Predicts the Destruction of the Temple(A)

24 Then (B)Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, (C)not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

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