Popular Bible Verses from Luke 3

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Now it occurred that, when all the people were baptised, and when Jesus also had been baptised, and while He was praying, the heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “You are My Son, the Beloved One; in You I am well pleased.”*

John gave an answer to them all, saying, “I indeed baptise you with water,* but the One who is mightier than I is coming, of whom I am not fit to untie the strap of His sandals. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Produce, then, fruits appropriate to repentance. Do not even begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father.’ For I say to you that God is able, from these stones, to raise up children for Abraham!

Even now, the axe is laid to the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “The voice of one calling aloud in the deserted place, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.* Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be levelled, and the crooked places will become straight, and the rough places will become level paths;* then all flesh will see the salvation of God.’ ”*