14But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me?


In Context

11 I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.

12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

13 Then comes Jesus from Galilee to Jordan to John, to be baptized of him.

14 But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me?

15 And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, see, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting on him:

Matthew 3:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But John tried to deter him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, |I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14but John was forbidding him, saying, 'I have need by thee to be baptized — and thou dost come unto me!'