4 Than raise John, bapteezin iʼ the muirlands, and preachin repentance‐baptism for the pittin‐awa oʼ sins.
“I, indeed, div in watir bapteeze ye intil repentance; but he wha follows me is sterker nor mysel; whase shoon Iʼse no fit to cairry; he sal bapteeze ye wiʼ Holie Spirit, and flaughts oʼ fire.
And war bapteezʼt by him in Jordan; confessin aʼ their sin.
And thar gaed oot till him aʼ the kintra‐side oʼ Judea, and aʼ thae oʼ Jerusalem, and war bapteezʼt oʼ him iʼ the River Jordan, tellin oot their sins.
“To gie knowledge oʼ salvation to his folk, for the remittin oʼ their sins,
And John his sel was in Enon, nar‐by Salim, bapteezin; for thar was rowth oʼ watir thar‐aboot; and the folk cam to be bapteezʼt.
“Ye ken what already has taen place, throwe the hail oʼ Judea, beginnin frae Galilee, eftir the bapteezin that John preached,
“ ‘And noo why are ye delayin? Rise; be bapteezʼt, and wesh awa yere sins, prayin to his name!’