American Standard Version
"But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? "
— Matthew 3:14, American Standard Version
“But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?”
“But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"”
“But John tried to prevent him, saying,“I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?””
“But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?”
“But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?”
“But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?”
I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him;
and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.