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3:1  In the fifteenth year of Emperor Tiberius’ rule; when Pontius Pilate was governor of Y’hudah, Herod ruler of the Galil, his brother Philip ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,
3:2  with ‘Anan and Kayafa being the cohanim g’dolim; the word of God came to Yochanan Ben-Z’kharyah in the desert.
3:3  He went all through the Yarden region proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.
3:4  It was just as had been written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Yesha‘yahu, “The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert prepare the way for Adonai! Make straight paths for him!
3:5  Every valley must be filled in, every mountain and hill leveled off; the winding roads must be straightened and the rough ways made smooth.
3:6  Then all humanity will see God’s deliverance.’”
3:7  Therefore, Yochanan said to the crowds who came out to be immersed by him, “You snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming punishment?
3:8  If you have really turned from your sins, produce fruit that will prove it! And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘Avraham is our father’! For I tell you that God can raise up for Avraham sons from these stones!
3:9  Already the axe is at the root of the trees, ready to strike; every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown in the fire!”
3:10  The crowds asked Yochanan, “So then, what should we do?”
3:11  He answered, “Whoever has two coats should share with somebody who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”
3:12  Tax-collectors also came to be immersed; and they asked him, “Rabbi, what should we do?”
3:13  “Collect no more than the government assesses,” he told them.
3:14  Some soldiers asked him, “What about us? What should we do?” To them he said, “Don’t intimidate anyone, don’t accuse people falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.”
3:15  The people were in a state of great expectancy, and everyone was wondering whether perhaps Yochanan himself might be the Messiah;
3:16  so Yochanan answered them all, “I am immersing you in water, but he who is coming is more powerful than I — I’m not worthy to untie his sandals! He will immerse you in the Ruach HaKodesh and in fire.
3:17  He has with him his winnowing fork to clear out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the straw with unquenchable fire!”
3:18  And with many other warnings besides these he announced the Good News to the people.
3:19  But Yochanan also denounced Herod the regional governor for taking as his own wife Herodias, the wife of his brother, and for all the other wicked things Herod had done;
3:20  whereupon Herod added this to the rest: he locked up Yochanan in prison.
3:21  While all the people were being immersed, Yeshua too was immersed. As he was praying, heaven was opened;
3:22  the Ruach HaKodesh came down on him in physical form like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, whom I love; I am well pleased with you.”
3:23  Yeshua was about thirty years old when he began his public ministry. It was supposed that he was a son of Yosef who was of Eli,
3:24  of Mattat, of Levi, of Malki, of Yannai, of Yosef,
3:25  of Mattityahu, of Amotz, of Nachum, of Hesli, of Naggai,
3:26  of Machat, of Mattityahu, of Shim‘i, of Yosef, of Yodah,
3:27  of Yochanan, of Reisha, of Z’rubavel, of Sh’altiel, of Neri,
3:28  of Malki, of Addi, of Kosam, of Elmadan, of Er,
3:29  of Yeshua, of Eli‘ezer, of Yoram, of Mattat, of Levi,
3:30  of Shim‘on, of Y’hudah, of Yosef, of Yonam, of Elyakim,
3:31  of Mal’ah, of Manah, of Mattatah, of Natan, of David,
3:32  of Yishai, of ‘Oved, of Bo‘az, of Salmon, of Nachshon,
3:33  of Amminadav, of Admin, of Arni, of Hetzron, of Peretz, of Y’hudah,
3:34  of Ya‘akov, of Yitz’chak, of Avraham, of Terach, of Nachor,
3:35  of S’rug, of Re‘u, of Peleg, of ‘Ever, of Shelah,
3:36  of Keinan, of Arpakhshad, of Shem, of Noach, of Lemekh,
3:37  of Metushelach, of Hanokh, of Yered, of Mahalal’el, of Keinan,
3:38  of Enosh, of Shet, of Adam, of God.