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施洗约翰传道

（可1．1－8；路3．1－18；约1．19－28）

¹在那些日子，施洗的约翰出来，在犹太的旷野宣讲： ²“你们要悔改！因为天国近了。” ³这人就是以赛亚先知所说的：
“在旷野有声音呼喊着：
预备主的道，
修直他的路。”
⁴这约翰身穿骆驼毛的衣服，腰束皮带，吃的是蝗虫和野蜜。 ⁵那时，耶路撒冷、全犹太和全约旦河地区的人，都到约翰那里去， ⁶承认他们的罪，在约旦河里受他的洗。
⁷约翰看见许多法利赛人和撒都该人也来受洗，就对他们说：“毒蛇的孽种啊，谁指示你们逃避那将要来的愤怒呢？ ⁸你们要结出果子来，和悔改的心相称。 ⁹不要自己心里说：‘我们有亚伯拉罕为祖宗。’我告诉你们，上帝能从这些石头中给亚伯拉罕兴起子孙来。 ¹⁰现在斧子已经放在树根上，凡不结好果子的树就砍下来，丢在火里。 ¹¹我是用水给你们施洗，叫你们悔改；但那在我以后来的，能力比我更大，我就是给他提鞋子也不配，他要用圣灵与火给你们施洗。 ¹²他手里拿着簸箕，要扬净他的谷物，把麦子收在仓里，把糠用不灭的火烧尽。”

耶稣受洗

（可1．9－11；路3．21－22）

¹³当时，耶稣从加利利来到约旦河，到了约翰那里，请约翰为他施洗。 ¹⁴约翰想要阻止他，说：“我应该受你的洗，你怎么到我这里来呢？” ¹⁵耶稣回答他：“暂且这样做吧，因为我们理当这样履行全部的义⚓。”于是约翰就依了他。 ¹⁶耶稣受了洗，随即从水里上来。天忽然为他⚓开了，他看见上帝的灵降下，仿佛鸽子落在他身上。 ¹⁷这时，天上有声音说：“这是我的爱子，我所喜爱的。”

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John the Baptist Prepares the Way

¹In those days ⚓John the Baptist came preaching ⚓in the wilderness of Judea, ²and saying, “Repent, for ⚓the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” ³For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
⚓“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
⚓‘Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make His paths straight.’ ”
⁴Now ⚓John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was ⚓locusts and ⚓wild honey. ⁵⚓Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him ⁶⚓and 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, ⚓“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from ⚓the wrath to come? ⁸Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, ⁹and do not think to say to yourselves, ⚓‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. ¹⁰And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. ⚓Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹⚓I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. ⚓He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹²⚓His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will ⚓burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

John Baptizes Jesus

¹³⚓Then Jesus came ⚓from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. ¹⁴And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”
¹⁵But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.
¹⁶⚓When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw ⚓the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. ¹⁷⚓And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ⚓“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”