Matthew 3:11

Dialogue of Justin

He cried, as he sat by the river Jordan: `I baptize you with water to repentance; but He that is stronger than I shall come, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and will gather the wheat into the barn; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.'[154]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

Now, who this Lord is that brings such a day about, John the Baptist points out, when he says of Christ, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, having His fan in His hand to cleanse His floor; and He will gather His fruit into the garner, but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire."[44]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII

But we say that the fire sanctifies[54]

Tertullian On Baptism

celestial in John-the Spirit of prophecy-so completely failed, after the transfer of the whole Spirit to the Lord, that he presently sent to inquire whether He whom he had himself preached,[105]

Tertullian On Baptism

and again, by saying that he "baptized in repentance only, but that One would shortly come who would baptize in the Spirit and fire; "[112]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments "There comes One mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire."[389]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Moreover, in the Gospel according to Matthew, John says: "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire."[59]

A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

t is, from the most ancient baptism of Moses, and preparing the way of the new and true grace, both preoccupied the ears of the Jews gradually by the baptism of water and of repentance which for the time he practised, and took possession of them with the announcement of a spiritual baptism that was to come, exhorting them, and saying, "He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire; "[5]

Excerpts of Theodotus

John says: "I indeed baptize you with water, but there cometh after me He that baptizeth with the Spirit and fire."[42]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI

Matthew reports that the Baptist, when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, after the words of rebuke which we have already studied, went on:[101]