In those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea.

And this John had his raiment of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

But when Jesus heard, that John was cast into prison, he retired into Galilee.

And going on from thence, he saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a vessel with Zebedee their father mending their nets; and he called them.

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

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

Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

And Jesus answering said to them, Go and tell John the things which ye hear and see.

Jesus said to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist; but he that is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he.

And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is entered by force, and they which strive with all their might take it by violence.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say, He hath a devil.

And he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign, and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold a greater than Jonah is here.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the fame of Jesus, And said to his servants, This is John the Baptist:

For Herod had apprehended John, and bound him and put him in prison, for Herodias sake, his brother Philip's wife.

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

she said, Give me here John the Baptist's head in a charger.

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison. And his head was brought in a charger,

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh a sign; but there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them and departed.

The Son of man? And they said, Some say, John the Baptist, others Elijah; others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter and James and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

So shall also the Son of man suffer from them. Then the disciples understood, that he spoke to them of John the Baptist.

The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven, or of men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, from heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

But if we say, Of men: we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him. And ye seeing it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.