In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;

And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Then Jesus approaches from Galilee to Jordan, to John, to be immersed by him.

And John hindered him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and dost thou come to me?

And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, went back into Galilee.

And having proceeded thence, he saw other two brethren, James him of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, adjusting their nets; and he called them.

Then came to him the disciples of John; saying, Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?

And the names of the twelve sent are these: first, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, he of Zebedee and John his brother;

And John having heard in prison the works of Christ, having sent two of his disciples,

And Jesus having answered said to them, Having gone, announce to John what ye hear and see:

And these going forth, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Verily I say to you, in the begotten of women has there not risen a greater than John the Immerser; but the less in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

From the days of John the Immerser till now the kingdom of the heavens is achieved by force, and they committing violence seize it eagerly.

For all the prophets, And the law prophesied till John.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; be was aroused from the dead; and for this, powers are energetic in him.

For Herod, having seized John, bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife:

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

And wishing to kill him, he was afraid of the crowd, because they held John as a prophet.

And having been urged on by her mother, Give me, she says, here upon a board, the head of John the Baptist.

And having sent, he beheaded John in the prison.

And they said, Some, truly, John the Baptist: and others, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

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

Then understood the disciples that he told them of John the Baptist.

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

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

For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.