Luke 3:16

Good News Translation

So John said to all of them, “I baptize you with water, but someone is coming who is much greater than I am. I am not good enough even to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:23

Listen when I reprimand you; I will give you good advice and share my knowledge with you.

Isaiah 32:15

But once more God will send us his spirit. The wasteland will become fertile, and fields will produce rich crops.

Isaiah 4:4

By his power the Lord will judge and purify the nation and wash away the guilt of Jerusalem and the blood that has been shed there.

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.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will test the third that survives and will purify them as silver is purified by fire. I will test them as gold is tested. Then they will pray to me, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will confess that I am their God.”

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 3:12

He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.”

John 1:26

John answered, “I baptize with water, but among you stands the one you do not know.

John 1:27

He is coming after me, but I am not good enough even to untie his sandals.”

John 1:33

I still did not know that he was the one, but God, who sent me to baptize with water, had said to me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and stay on a man; he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

John 7:38

whoever believes in me should drink. As the scripture says, ‘Streams of life-giving water will pour out from his side.’”

Acts 1:5

John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 10:44

While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who were listening to his message.

Acts 2:33

He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.

1 Corinthians 12:13

In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.