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


In Context

11 I indeed baptise you with water to repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not fit to bear; he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire;

12 whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

13 Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised of him;

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

15 But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers him.

16 And Jesus, having been baptised, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon 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 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!'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me?