Matthew 3:12

Translations

Modern

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Traditional

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Literal

…whose winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor and will gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Latin

Cujus ventilabrum in manu sua: et permundabit aream suam: et congregabit triticum suum in horreum, paleas autem comburet igni inextinguibili.

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English

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Notes

Matthew 3:12

Farmers used a winnowing fork to throw harvested grain into the air, letting the useless husks (chaff) blow away.

The Messiah's work separates humanity into two groups:

the wheat, those who respond and become God's new people; and
the chaff, those who refuse to repent (see Matthew 3:8).

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