Now in those days comes John the baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.

Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised of him;

but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me?

But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee:

And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;

Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not?

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

But John, having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, sent by his disciples,

And Jesus answering said to them, Go, report to John what ye hear and see.

But as they went away, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? a reed moved about by the wind?

Verily I say to you, that there is not arisen among the born of women a greater than John the baptist. But he who is a little one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

But from the days of John the baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence, and the violent seize on it.

For all the prophets and the law have prophesied unto John.

For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.

and said to his servants, This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead, and because of this these works of power display their force in him.

For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.

For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here upon a dish the head of John the baptist.

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison;

And they said, Some, John the baptist; and others, Elias; and others again, Jeremias or one of the prophets.

And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.

Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the baptist.

The baptism of John, whence was it? of heaven or of men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say to us, Why then have ye not believed him?

but if we should say, Of men, we fear the crowd, for all hold John for a prophet.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him; but ye when ye saw it repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him.