John 3:25

New Century Version

Some of John’s followers had an argument with a Jew about religious washing.

Cross References

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water to show that your hearts and lives have changed. But there is one coming after me who is greater than I am, whose sandals I am not good enough to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Mark 7:8

You have stopped following the commands of God, and you follow only human teachings.”

John 2:6

In that place there were six stone water jars that the Jews used in their washing ceremony. Each jar held about twenty or thirty gallons.

Hebrews 6:2

We should not return to the teaching about baptisms, about laying on of hands, about the raising of the dead and eternal judgment.

Hebrews 9:10

These gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. They were rules for the body, to be followed until the time of God’s new way.

Hebrews 9:23

So the copies of the real things in heaven had to be made clean by animal sacrifices. But the real things in heaven need much better sacrifices.

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is like baptism that now saves you—not the washing of dirt from the body, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. And this is because Jesus Christ was raised from the dead.