Luke 3:16

New Century Version

John answered everyone, “I baptize you with water, but there is one coming who is greater than I am. I am not good enough to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:23

If only you had listened when I corrected you, I would have told you what’s in my heart; I would have told you what I am thinking.

Isaiah 32:15

This will continue until God pours his Spirit from above upon us. Then the desert will be like a fertile field and the fertile field like a forest.

Isaiah 4:4

The Lord will wash away the filth from the women of Jerusalem. He will wash the bloodstains out of Jerusalem and clean the city with the spirit of fairness and the spirit of fire.

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.

Zechariah 13:9

The third that is left I will test with fire, purifying them like silver, testing them like gold. Then they will call on me, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

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.

Matthew 3:12

He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”

John 1:26

John answered, “I baptize with water, but there is one here with you that you don’t know about.

John 1:27

He is the One who comes after me. I am not good enough to untie the strings of his sandals.”

John 7:38

If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person’s heart, as the Scripture says.”

Acts 1:5

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

Acts 10:44

While Peter was still saying this, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who were listening.

Acts 2:33

Jesus was lifted up to heaven and is now at God’s right side. The Father has given the Holy Spirit to Jesus as he promised. So Jesus has poured out that Spirit, and this is what you now see and hear.

1 Corinthians 12:13

Some of us are Jews, and some are Greeks. Some of us are slaves, and some are free. But we were all baptized into one body through one Spirit. And we were all made to share in the one Spirit.