er accuse
any one wrongfully; and be content with your wages."

And as the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their
hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the Christ; John
answered, saying unto them all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but
there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I
am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and
in fire: whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his
threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the
chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

With many other exhortations therefore preached he good tidings unto
the people.

THE BAPTISM OF JESUS.

And it came to pass in those days, when all the people were baptized,
that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to
be baptized of him.

But John would have hindered him, saying, "I have need to be baptized
of thee, and comest thou to me?"

But Jesus answering said unto him, "Suffer it now: for thus it
becometh us to fulfil all righteousness."

Then he suffereth him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway from the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto him,
and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon
him; and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased."

THE TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS.

Then straightway was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to
be tempted of the devil, and he was with the wild beasts, and did eat
nothing in those days. And when he had fasted forty days and forty
nights, he afterward hungered.

And the tempter came and said unto him, "If thou art the Son of God,
command that these stones become bread."

But he answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'"

Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the
pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, "If thou art the Son of
God, cast thyself down: for it is written,

"'He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard
thee.'

and,

"'On their hands they shall bear thee up,
Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.'"

Jesus said unto him, "Again it is written, 'Thou shalt not make trial
of the Lord thy God.'"

Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and
showeth him all the kingd