15. And as the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the Christ;
16. John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
17. whose fan is in his hand, throughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
18. With many other exhortations therefore preached he good tidings unto the people;
19. but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,