John would say to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Even some tax collectors came to be baptized. They asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

When all the people had been baptized, Jesus, too, was baptized. While he was praying, heaven opened,

By having been baptized with John's baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice.

But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law rejected God's plan for themselves by refusing to be baptized by John.

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and what stress I am under until it's completed!