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1. AND it was
in the midst of the summer, the tenth month. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee
to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying,
I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering
said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil
all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
2. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water; and,
lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and a bright cloud stood over him, and
from behind the cloud Twelve Rays of light, and thence in the form of a Dove,
the Spirit of God descending and lighting upon him. And, lo, a voice from heaven
saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; this day have I
begotten thee.
3. And John bare witness of him ,saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that
cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. And of his fulness
have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was in part given by
Moses, but grace and truth cometh in fulness by Jesus Christ.
4. No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten which cometh from the
bosom of the Eternal in the same is God revealed. And this is the record of
John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who
art I thou ? And he deified not, but confessed I am not the Christ.
5. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not, Art
thou that prophet of whom Moses spake? And he answered, No. Then said they
unto him, Who art thou ? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What
sayest thou of thyself? And he said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Holy One, as said the Prophet Esaias.
6. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees, and they asked him and said
unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither
that prophet of whom Moses spake?
7. John answered them, saying, I baptize with water; but there standeth One
among you, whom ye know not, He shall baptize with water and with fire. He
it is who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am
not worthy to unloose.
8. These things were done in Bethabara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
And Jesus began at this time to be thirty years of age, being after the flesh
indeed the Son of Joseph and Mary; but after the Spirit. the Christ, the Son
of God, the Father and Mother Eternal, as was declared by the Spirit of holiness
with power.
9. AND Joseph was the son of Jacob and Elisheba, and Mary was the daughter
of Eli (called Joachim) and Anna, who were the children of David and Bathsheba,
of Judah and Shela, of Jacob and Leah, of Isaac and Rebecca, of Abraham and
Sarah, of Seth and Maat, of Adam and Eve, who were the children of God.
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