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

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

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be immersed by him;

And, hearing that John was delivered up, He withdrew into Galilee.

And, having gone on thence, He saw other two brothers: James a son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them;

Then came 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: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

And John, having heard, in the prison, of the works of the Christ, sending by his disciples,

And Jesus, answering, said to them, "Having gone, report to John what ye are hearing and seeing:

And, as these were going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?

"Verily I say to you, there has not arisen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Immerser; yet he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

And from the time of John the Immerser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven is taken by storm, and violent men seize upon it;

for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John;

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

And He, answering, said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

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 will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

"This is John the Immerser; He arose from the dead; and therefore do the powers work in Him."

For Herod, having laid hold of John, bound him, and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

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

And she, urged on by her mother, says, "Give me here upon a plate the head of John the Immerser."

and, having sent, he beheaded John in the prison;

An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet." And, leaving them, He departed.

And they said, "Some say John the Immerser; and others, Elijah; and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

And Jesus, answering, said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah; because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in Heaven.

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

Then the disciples understood that He spake to them concerning John the Immerser.

The immersion of John??hence was it? from Heaven or from men?" And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From Heaven,' He will say to us, 'Why, then, did ye not believe him?'

But, if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet."

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him; but ye, having seen him, did not even repent afterward, that ye might believe him."