John

"You are all snakes! Who warned you to run from God's judgment that is coming?

Change your hearts! And show by your lives that you have changed.

“But Abraham is our father!”

That means nothing.

These rocks!

To cut down the trees.

It will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

"What should we do?"

"If you have two shirts, share with someone who does not have one.

Share that too.

They wanted to be baptized.

"Teacher, what should we do?"

John told them, "Don't take more taxes from people than you have been ordered to collect."

John said to them, "Don't use force or lies to make people give you money. Be happy with the pay you get."

They were hoping for the Messiah to come.

They thought, "Maybe he is the Messiah.

"I baptize you in water, but there is someone coming later who is able to do more than I can.

He said, “I am not good enough to be the slave who unties his sandals.”

The Messiah will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

The grain.

He will put the good part into his barn.

He will burn the useless part with a fire that cannot be stopped.

To encourage the people to change and to tell them the Good News.