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Matthew 3:14
But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?
Matthew 3:14 · Bible in Basic English
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Matthew 3:14 in other translations
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”
But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
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In context
11 Truly, 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:
12 In 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.
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.
14 But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?
15 But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.
16 And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;
17 And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
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