¹Now in those days John the Baptist appeared on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ²and he would say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” ³For this man is the one spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, who said, ⁴Now John himself wore clothing made from camels' hair and a leather belt around his loins, while his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵Then Jerusalem and all of Judaea and all the region around Jordan came out to him, ⁶and they were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who has intimated to you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸So produce fruit worthy of repentance, ⁹and do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have our father Abraham.’ For I say to you that God can raise children to Abraham from these stones, ¹⁰and the axe has already been laid at the root of the trees. For every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire. ¹¹Now I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than me, whose shoes I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with holy spirit ¹²– he whose winnowing fan is in his hand – and he will thoroughly clean his threshing floor, and he will gather his wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire.” ¹³Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John in order to be baptized by him, ¹⁴although John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, yet do you come to me?” ¹⁵But Jesus answered by saying to him, “Allow it right now, for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he allowed him. ¹⁶Then when Jesus had been baptized, straightaway he came up out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and alighting on him. ¹⁷And there was a voice from the heavens, which said, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am very pleased.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.3 ↔ Isaiah 40:3.