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new Prophet; and the penitent Jews were baptized by him in
the water of the River Jordan. He reprimanded the educated
but fanatical Pharisees and the Priests, and threatened the
learned but rationalistic Saduqees (Saducees) with the
coming vengeance. He declared that he was baptizing them
with water only as a sign of purification of the heart by
penance. He promulgated that there was coming after him
another Prophet who would baptized them with the Holy
Spirit and fire; who would gather together his wheat into his
granaries and burn the chaff with an inextinguishable fire.
He further declared that he who was coming afterwards was
to such an extent superior to himself in power and dignity
that the Baptist confessed to be unfit or unworthy to bow
down to untie and loose the laces of his shoes.
It was on one of these great baptismal performances of
Prophet Yahya (St. John the Baptist) that Jesus of Nazareth
the water of the River Jordan. He reprimanded the educated
but fanatical Pharisees and the Priests, and threatened the
learned but rationalistic Saduqees (Saducees) with the
coming vengeance. He declared that he was baptizing them
with water only as a sign of purification of the heart by
penance. He promulgated that there was coming after him
another Prophet who would baptized them with the Holy
Spirit and fire; who would gather together his wheat into his
granaries and burn the chaff with an inextinguishable fire.
He further declared that he who was coming afterwards was
to such an extent superior to himself in power and dignity
that the Baptist confessed to be unfit or unworthy to bow
down to untie and loose the laces of his shoes.
It was on one of these great baptismal performances of
Prophet Yahya (St. John the Baptist) that Jesus of Nazareth