Mat 3:11-14, Luk 5:8, Joh 1:27 | ESV | STEP | I baptize you with water for repentance , but he who is coming after me is mightier than I , whose sandals I am not worthy to carry . He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire .

Matthew 3:11-14

11 ^a“I baptize you with water ^bfor repentance, but ^che who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you ^dwith the Holy Spirit and ^efire. 12 His ^fwinnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and ^ggather his wheat into the barn, ^hbut the chaff he will burn with ⁱunquenchable fire.”

The Baptism of Jesus

13 ^jThen Jesus came ^kfrom Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14 ^lJohn would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”

Luke 5:8

8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ^m“Depart from me, for ⁿI am a sinful man, O Lord.”

John 1:27

27 even ^ohe who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”