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15 Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were questioning in their hearts whether John might be the Messiah.(A) 16 John answered them all,(B) ‘I baptise you with water, but one who is more powerful than I am is coming. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptise you with[a] the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing shovel(C) is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and gather the wheat into his barn,(D) but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’(E)

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