World English Bible
Matthew 3:14
“But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
Verse in context — Matthew 3
12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
13
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
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But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?
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But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.
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Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
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