I indeed immerse you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall immerse you with Ruach HaKodesh, and with fire:
Yochanan answered, saying unto them all, I indeed immerse you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall immerse you with Ruach HaKodesh and with fire:
And there went out unto him all the land of Yhudah, and they of Yerushalayim, and were all immersed of him in the river of Yarden, confessing their sins.
And I prayed unto YY my Elohim, and made my confession, and said, O YY , the great and dreadful Elohim, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love Him, and to them that keep His Commandments;
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto YY ; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
And Y'howshu`a said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to YY Elohim of Yisrael, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And Aharon shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Yisrael, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
The like figure whereunto even immersion doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Elohim,) by the resurrection of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach:
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of Elohim, there assembled unto him out of Yisrael a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.