Matthew:3

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* After some years had passed , John the Baptizer came and told Gods word in the desert of Judea . * He said , Stop doing wrong things and turn back to God ! The kingdom of heaven is almost here . * This is the man that Isaiah the prophet of God spoke about long ago . He said , A man is calling in the wilderness , "Make the way ready for the Lord . Make the road straight for him ." * John wore clothes made of camels hair and a leather belt . He ate locusts and wild honey . * People went to him from Jerusalem , from all of Judea , and from all the country near the Jordan River . * He baptised them in the Jordan River when they said how sorry they were for the wrong things they had done . * Many of the Pharisee group and the Sadducee group came to him to be baptised . But when he saw them , he said to them , You family of snakes ! Who told you to run away from Gods anger that is coming ? * Stop your wrong ways to show that you have turned back to God . * Do not think you can say to your-selves , "Abraham is our father ." I tell you , God can make children for Abraham from these stones . * The axe is ready to cut down the trees . Every tree that does not have good fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire . * I baptise you with water when you stop your wrong ways . But another person is coming after me . He is greater than I am . I am not good enough to take off his shoes . He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire . * He has a cleaning fan in his hand and will fan his grain very clean . He will put the grain into his storehouse . But he will burn the chaff in the fire that never dies . * Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan River . He came to John to be baptised by him . * John tried to stop him . He said , I need to be baptised by you . Why do you come to me to be baptised ? * But Jesus answered , Please do it now . In this way we shall do all that is right . Then John let him be baptised . * After Jesus was baptised , he came up out of the water right away . The sky opened . He saw the Spirit of God coming down on him like a dove . * A voice from the sky said , This is my dear Son . I am very pleased with him .

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