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


In Context

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

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

13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

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

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

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