Acts 19:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Jesus.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, continually telling the people that they should believe in the One Who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus [having a conviction full of joyful trust that He is Christ, the Messiah, and being obedient to Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus.

Common English Bible

⁴ Paul explained, “John baptized with a baptism by which people showed they were changing their hearts and lives. It was a baptism that told people about the one who was coming after him. This is the one in whom they were to believe. This one is Jesus.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Then Paul said: "John baptized the people with the baptism of repentance, saying that they should believe in the One who is to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance, saying: That they should believe in him who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.

Acts 19:4 Cross References

John 1:15

John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that cometh after me is become before me: for he was before me.

John 1:26

John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,

John 1:27

even he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.

John 1:7

The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.

Acts 1:5

For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

Acts 11:16

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.