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He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/luke/3-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/luke/3-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/luke/3-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/1.htm">Luke</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/3-15.htm" title="Luke 3:15">◄</a> Luke 3:16 <a href="../luke/3-17.htm" title="Luke 3:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/luke/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/luke/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So John said to all of them, "I baptize you with water, but someone is coming who is much greater than I am. I am not good enough even to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/luke/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/luke/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />John said, "I am just baptizing with water. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/luke/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />John answered them all, saying, “I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/luke/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;</p><p class="hdg">I indeed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/3-11.htm">Matthew 3:11</a> I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/1-7.htm">Mark 1:7,8</a> And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/1-26.htm">John 1:26,33</a> John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/1-5.htm">Acts 1:5</a> For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/11-16.htm">Acts 11:16</a> And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said: John indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/13-24.htm">Acts 13:24,25</a> John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/19-4.htm">Acts 19:4,5</a> Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus. . . . </p><p class="hdg">he shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/1-23.htm">Proverbs 1:23</a> Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/32-15.htm">Isaiah 32:15</a> Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/44-3.htm">Isaiah 44:3,4</a> For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/36-25.htm">Ezekiel 36:25</a> And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/2-28.htm">Joel 2:28,29</a> And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/7-38.htm">John 7:38</a> He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/2-33.htm">Acts 2:33</a> Being exalted therefore by the right hand of God and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this which you see and hear.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/10-44.htm">Acts 10:44</a> While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/11-15.htm">Acts 11:15</a> And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/12-13.htm">1 Corinthians 12:13</a> For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.</p><p class="hdg">and with.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/4-4.htm">Isaiah 4:4</a> If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/13-9.htm">Zechariah 13:9</a> And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/3-2.htm">Malachi 3:2,3</a> And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/2-3.htm">Acts 2:3,4,17,18</a> And there appeared to them parted tongues, as it were of fire: and it sat upon every one of them. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/luke/3.htm">The Mission of John the Baptist</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ: <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;</span> <span class="reftext">17</span>Whose fan is in his hand: and he will purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his barn: but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/3-11.htm">Matthew 3:11</a></span><br />I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/3-12.htm">Matthew 3:12</a></span><br />Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/1-7.htm">Mark 1:7</a></span><br />And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/1-8.htm">Mark 1:8</a></span><br />I have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-26.htm">John 1:26</a></span><br />John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-27.htm">John 1:27</a></span><br />The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-33.htm">John 1:33</a></span><br />And I knew him not: but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/1-5.htm">Acts 1:5</a></span><br />For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/13-25.htm">Acts 13:25</a></span><br />And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/19-4.htm">Acts 19:4</a></span><br />Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/luke/2-27.htm">Anointed</a> <a href="/mark/1-8.htm">Baptize</a> <a href="/mark/12-28.htm">Debating</a> <a href="/luke/3-10.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/mark/9-26.htm">Fit</a> <a href="/luke/2-26.htm">Ghost</a> <a href="/luke/2-27.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/luke/3-9.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/luke/3-15.htm">John</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-27.htm">Latchet</a> <a href="/mark/1-7.htm">Mightier</a> <a href="/luke/1-66.htm">Minds</a> <a href="/luke/3-15.htm">Possibly</a> <a href="/mark/1-7.htm">Powerful</a> <a href="/mark/6-9.htm">Sandals</a> <a href="/mark/6-9.htm">Shoes</a> <a href="/luke/2-40.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/hosea/11-7.htm">Suspense</a> <a href="/mark/1-7.htm">Unloose</a> <a href="/mark/11-2.htm">Untie</a> <a href="/mark/14-13.htm">Water</a> <a href="/luke/3-15.htm">Whether</a> <a href="/luke/3-8.htm">Worthy</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/luke/4-18.htm">Anointed</a> <a href="/luke/11-38.htm">Baptize</a> <a href="/luke/5-23.htm">Debating</a> <a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/luke/9-62.htm">Fit</a> <a href="/luke/3-22.htm">Ghost</a> <a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/luke/3-18.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/luke/3-18.htm">John</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-27.htm">Latchet</a> <a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Mightier</a> <a href="/luke/5-27.htm">Minds</a> <a href="/luke/21-34.htm">Possibly</a> <a href="/luke/24-19.htm">Powerful</a> <a href="/luke/10-4.htm">Sandals</a> <a href="/luke/10-4.htm">Shoes</a> <a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/luke/12-29.htm">Suspense</a> <a href="/john/1-27.htm">Unloose</a> <a href="/luke/13-15.htm">Untie</a> <a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Water</a> <a href="/luke/5-23.htm">Whether</a> <a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Worthy</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all am and answered As baptize But come coming fire fit for He His Holy I is John me mightier more not of one powerful said sandals Spirit than the them thong thongs to untie water who whose will with worthy you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/3-16.htm">NT Gospels: Luke 3:16 John answered them all I indeed baptize (Luke Lu Lk) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../luke/3-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 3:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 3:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/3-17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 3:17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 3:17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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