7But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
9And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
10And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
11Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
12In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
13Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.
