The King James Version Bible

Luke 3:17-23

  1. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

  2. And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.

  3. But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

  4. Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

  5. Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

  6. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

  7. And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,