John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
“I baptize you with water for 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.
They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
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