Matthew 3:11

New Century Version

“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.

Cross References

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.

Isaiah 44:3

I will pour out water for the thirsty land and make streams flow on dry land. I will pour out my Spirit into your children and my blessing on your descendants.

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 3:6

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

Mark 1:4

John was baptizing people in the desert and preaching a baptism of changed hearts and lives for the forgiveness of sins.

Luke 1:17

He will go before the Lord in spirit and power like Elijah. He will make peace between parents and their children and will bring those who are not obeying God back to the right way of thinking, to make a people ready for the coming of the Lord.”

Luke 3:16

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.

Luke 3:3

He went all over the area around the Jordan River preaching a baptism of changed hearts and lives for the forgiveness of sins.

John 1:15

John tells the truth about him and cries out, saying, “This is the One I told you about: ‘The One who comes after me is greater than I am, because he was living before me.’ ”

John 1:30

This is the One I was talking about when I said, ‘A man will come after me, but he is greater than I am, because he was living before me.’

Acts 1:5

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

Acts 19:4

Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of changed hearts and lives. He told people to believe in the one who would come after him, and that one is Jesus.”

Acts 8:36

While they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The officer said, “Look, here is water. What is stopping me from being baptized?” [

Acts 8:38

Then the officer commanded the chariot to stop. Both Philip and the officer went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

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.

Ephesians 3:8

I am the least important of all God’s people, but God gave me this gift—to tell those who are not Jews the Good News about the riches of Christ, which are too great to understand fully.

Titus 3:5

he saved us because of his mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with him. He saved us through the washing that made us new people through the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, younger people should be willing to be under older people. And all of you should be very humble with each other. “God is against the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”