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


In Context

11 "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

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

15 Jesus replied, "Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness." Then John consented.

16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, 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 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!'

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?