10 Already the axe is laid at the root of the trees: every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

11 I baptize you in water for repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I; I am not worthy to bear His shoes; He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire;

12 His shovel is in his hand, and he will purge his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the garner, and the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

14 And John restrained him, and said, 'I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?'

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, 'Leave it now, for thus it behooves us to fulfill all righteousness.' Then John admits Him.

16 And having been baptized, Jesus immediately came up out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened unto him, and John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and descending upon him.

17 And behold, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Chapter 4

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil,

2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he hungered at last.

3 And the tempter came unto him, and said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4 And he answered and said unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil took him into the holy city, and set him on the wing of the temple,