14But John would have hindered him, saying, |I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?|
14But John would have hindered him, saying, |I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?|
11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.|
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
14 But John would have hindered him, saying, |I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?|
15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, |Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.| Then he allowed him.
16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on 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 urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised 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 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?