3:1And in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governing Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, under the chiefs of the priests Annas and Caiaphas: the word of the Lord came upon John, the son of Zechariah, in the desert. 3:3And he came into all the region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, just as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "A voice of one shouting in the desert: Make ready the way of the Lord; 3:4make his paths straight: every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low: and the crooked things will become straight, and the rough into level ways: and all flesh will see the salvation of God." So he was saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him: "Offspring of vipers, who showed you how to flee from the anger to come?
3:8So make fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say: 'We have Abraham as father.' 3:8For I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up sons to Abraham. 3:9For already the axe has been laid to the root of the trees. 3:9So every tree not making good fruit will be cut down, and will be thrown into the fire." 3:10And the crowds were asking him, saying: "What then shall we do?" 3:11And answering, he was saying to them: "He who has two tunics, let him give to the one not having: and he who has food, let him do likewise." 3:12And tax collectors too came to be baptized, and they said to him: "Master, what shall we do?"
3:13But he said to them: "Do nothing more than what has been appointed for you." 3:14And soldiers too were asking him, saying: "What shall we do, we too?" 3:14And he said to them: "Shake down no one, nor make false accusation: and be content with your wages." 3:15And while the people were supposing, and all were thinking in their hearts about John, whether perhaps he himself might be the Christ, John answered, saying to all: "I indeed baptize you with water: but there will come one stronger than me, the strap of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen: he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire: whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will clean his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
3:18So, exhorting them with many other things too, he was bringing good news to the people. 3:19But Herod the tetrarch, when he was being rebuked by him about Herodias, the wife of his brother, and about all the evils which Herod had done, added this too above all, and shut John up in prison. 3:21And it was done: when all the people were being baptized, and Jesus having been baptized, and praying, heaven was opened: and the Holy Spirit came down in bodily appearance like a dove upon him: and a voice came from heaven: "You are my son, loved; in you I have been well pleased." 3:23And Jesus himself was beginning at about thirty years of age, being, as was thought, the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Matthat, who was of Levi, who was of Melchi, who was of Jannai, who was of Joseph, who was of Mattathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of Esli, who was of Naggai, who was of Maath, who was of Mattathias, who was of Semein, who was of Joseph, who was of Judah, who was of Joanan, who was of Rhesa, who was of Zerubbabel, who was of Shealtiel, who was of Neri, who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who was of Cosam, who was of Elmadam, who was of Er, who was of Jesus, who was of Eliezer, who was of Jorim, who was of Matthat, who was of Levi, who was of Simeon, who was of Judah, who was of Joseph, who was of Jonam, who was of Eliakim, who was of Melea, who was of Menna, who was of Mattatha, who was of Nathan, who was of David, who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who was of Boaz, who was of Salmon, who was of Nahshon, who was of Amminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Hezron, who was of Perez, who was of Judah, who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was of Terah, who was of Nahor, who was of Serug, who was of Reu, who was of Peleg, who was of Eber, who was of Shelah, who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Shem, who was of Noah, who was of Lamech, who was of Methuselah, who was of Enoch, who was of Jared, who was of Mahalaleel, who was of Cainan, who was of Enos, who was of Seth, who was of Adam, who was of God.