Luke 3:17

The Passion Translation

He has in his hands a winnowing fork to clean up his threshing floor! He will separate the wheat from the chaff. The wheat he will gather into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that no one can ever put out!”

Cross References

Psalm 1:4

But how different are the wicked. They are like chaff blown away by the wind.

Isaiah 30:24

Even your oxen and donkeys that work the soil will feed on good grain, separated from its chaff.

Jeremiah 15:7

I threw you to the wind like straw, scattering you throughout the cities of the earth. I made my people childless and killed them, since they would not repent from their ways.

Matthew 13:30

Let them both grow together until the harvest. At that time, I’ll tell my harvesters to gather the weeds first and tie them all in bundles to be burned. Then they will harvest the wheat and put it into my barn.’ ”

Matthew 3:12

He comes with a winnowing fork in his hands and comes to his threshing floor to sift what is worthless from what is pure. And he is ready to sweep out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his granary, but the straw he will burn up with a fire that can’t be extinguished!”

Luke 3:18

John used many similar warnings as he preached the good news and prepared the people.