Nihil sub sole novum

Matthew 3.1-6 – Saint John the Baptist Preaching & Baptizing in the Jordan

Matthew 3.7-10 – Saint John the Baptist Discoursing with Pharisees and Sadducees
Jam enim securis ad radicem arborum posita est. Omnis ergo arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur.
For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 2.10

Matthew 3.11-13 – Saint John the Baptist Bears Witness

Matthew 3.14-15 – “Suffer It To Be So Now”
Respondens autem Jesus, dixit ei : Sine modo : sic enim decet nos implere omnem justitiam. Tunc dimisit eum.
And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 3.15

Matthew 3.16-17 – The Baptism of Christ

Sources
Digital Facsimile / Index of Medieval Art
Le Tétraévangile de la Laurentienne by Tania Velmans.

NON VINCITUR ANNIS

CHARITATI .S.
Fortis Amor crescensque annis tumuloque superstes
Dic mihi sub qauli nomine notus erit?
Anguis erit? sed qui sine fine revertat eodem?
An placet aeternam forte vocare facem?
Nomina convenient: sed erunt haec longa prelatu[?]
Dic, si vis frevius[?] dicere, Dominicum.