Acts 8:36

Good News Translation

As they traveled down the road, they came to a place where there was some water, and the official said, “Here is some water. What is to keep me from being baptized?”

Cross References

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water to show that you have repented, but the one who will come after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. He is much greater than I am; and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals.

Matthew 3:6

They confessed their sins, and he baptized them in the Jordan.

John 3:23

John also was baptizing in Aenon, not far from Salim, because there was plenty of water in that place. People were going to him, and he was baptizing them. (

John 3:5

“I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus, “that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.

Acts 10:47

“These people have received the Holy Spirit, just as we also did. Can anyone, then, stop them from being baptized with water?”

1 John 5:6

Jesus Christ is the one who came with the water of his baptism and the blood of his death. He came not only with the water, but with both the water and the blood. And the Spirit himself testifies that this is true, because the Spirit is truth.