Baptism

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”

He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”

…beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:

Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.

Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

…one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,