14but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me?
14but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me?
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:
3:14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
3:14But John tried to deter him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
3:14But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
3:14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, |I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?|
3:14but John was forbidding him, saying, 'I have need by thee to be baptized — and thou dost come unto me!'
3:14But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me?