\subsection{Matthew 3}
\subsubsection{The Ministry of \Ioannes the Baptist}
\VS{1} Now in those days \Ioannes the Baptist comes preaching in the wilderness of 
Judea 
\VS{2} saying: Be repenting, for the kingdom of the heavens is at 
hand. 
\VS{3} For this is he, the [one] spoken of through Isaiah the prophet when 
he says\footnote{Isa.40:3}: 

\begin{verse}
The voice of [one] \\
Crying in the wilderness, \\
Prepare the way of the Lord, \\
Be making his paths straight. 
\end{verse}

\VS{4} Now \Ioannes himself was having his clothing from camel hairs and [an] animal 
skin girdle around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 
\VS{5} At that time Jerusalem and all Judea and all the surrounding country 
of Jordan were coming to him 
\VS{6} and were being baptized in the Jordan 
River by him, fully confessing their sins. 

\VS{7} And having seen many of 
the Pharisees and Sadducees coming up to his baptism, he said to them: [You] born 
of vipers, who has shown you to be fleeing from the impending wrath? 
\VS{8} Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance. 
\VS{9} And do not suppose to 
be saying among yourselves: [the] father we have [is] \Abraam. For I say to you that 
God is able out of these stones to raise up children of \Abraam. 
\VS{10} Now 
the ax already lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that is 
not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 

\VS{11} I on 
the one hand baptize you in water to repentance. But on the other hand the 
[one] coming after me is greater than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to touch. 
He himself will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire, 
\VS{12} whose 
threshing fork [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean his 
threshing-floor, and he will gather his grain into the storehouse, but the 
chaff he will burn in unquenchable fire.

\subsubsection{The Baptism of \Iesous}
\VS{13} At that time \Iesous comes to the Jordan to \Ioannes to be baptized by 
him. 
\VS{14} But he was hindering him saying: I have need to be baptized by 
you, and you come to me? 
\VS{15} And answering \Iesous said to him: Permit it 
just now, for thus it is [a] fitting thing for us to fulfill all justice. Then 
he permitted him. 
\VS{16} And \Iesous having been baptized, immediately he 
came out from the water, and behold the heavens were opened, and he saw the 
spirit of God coming down like [a] dove, coming upon him. 
\VS{17} And behold 
[a] voice out of the heavens said: This is my agape-beloved son, in whom I am 
well-pleased.
