7 Many Pharisees and Sadducees also came to be baptized. But John said to them:You snakes! Who warned you to run from the coming judgment?
8 Do something to show that you have really given up your sins.
9 And don't start telling yourselves that you belong to Abraham's family. I tell you that God can turn these stones into children for Abraham.
10 An axe is ready to cut the trees down at their roots. Any tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into a fire.
11 I baptize you with water so that you will give up your sins. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
12 His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in a barn and burn the husks in a fire that never goes out.
13 Jesus left Galilee and went to the River Jordan to be baptized by John.