drb Matthew:3:1-12
drb@Matthew:3:1 @And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
drb@Matthew:3:2 @And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
drb@Matthew:3:3 @For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
drb@Matthew:3:4 @And the same John had his garment of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
drb@Matthew:3:5 @Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan:
drb@Matthew:3:6 @And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
drb@Matthew:3:7 @And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?
drb@Matthew:3:8 @Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
drb@Matthew:3:9 @And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
drb@Matthew:3:10 @For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees
drb@Matthew:3:11 @I indeed baptize you in the water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
drb@Matthew:3:12 @Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
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