Popular Bible Verses from The Gospel of Matthew 3

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You’d better prove your repentance by bearing the right sort of fruit!

Then there came a voice out of the heavens. “This is my son, my beloved one,” said the voice. “I am delighted with him.”

and Jesus was baptized. All at once, as he came up out of the water, suddenly the heavens were opened, and he saw God’s spirit coming down like a dove and landing on him.

“I am baptizing you with water, for repentance,” John continued. “But the one who is coming behind me is more powerful than me! I’m not even worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy spirit and fire!

The axe is already taking aim at the root of the trees. Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

John, you see, is the person spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, when he said, The voice of someone shouting in the desert: “Prepare the route that the Lord will take, straighten out his paths!”