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## Luke 3:16-17 in Context (Verses 13–20 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/luke/3/13) And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/luke/3/14) And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse *any* falsely; and be content with your wages.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/luke/3/15) And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
 
 [16 ](/kjv/luke/3/16) John answered, saying unto *them* all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
 
 [17 ](/kjv/luke/3/17) Whose fan *is* in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/luke/3/18) And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/luke/3/19) But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
 
 [20 ](/kjv/luke/3/20) Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
 
[Luke 2](/kjv/luke/2) [Luke 4](/kjv/luke/4)

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