Matthew Chapter 3    

¹And in those days John the Baptist publicly appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea, saying,
  ²“Repent, because the Kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.”
  ³Indeed this is the one spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, A voice of one calling out in the desert, “Make the road ready for the Lord! Make the paths straight for him!”^a
 

⁴Now John had clothing made of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
  ⁵Then Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan were going out to him
  ⁶and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, openly confessing their sins.
 

⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  ⁸Come now, produce fruit that is consistent with repentance,
  ⁹and do not think that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ because I say to you that God is able to produce children of Abraham from these stones.
  ¹⁰The axe is already laid down at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
  ¹¹I baptize you in water as a symbol of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I am—I am not even worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with holy spirit or with fire.
  ¹²His winnowing fork^b is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor, and he will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
 

¹³Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan River to be baptized by him.
  ¹⁴But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?”
  ¹⁵But Jesus answered and said to him, “Allow it for now, because this is the proper way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
  ¹⁶And after Jesus had been baptized, immediately as he stepped up^c out of the water, behold, the heavens were opened to him and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and coming to rest upon him.
  ¹⁷And behold, a voice came out of heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased.”