Matthew 3:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Cross References

Isaiah 4:4

once the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 1:4

so John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Luke 1:17

With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 3:16

John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Luke 3:3

He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

John 1:15

(John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ ”)

John 1:30

This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’

Acts 1:5

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 19:4

Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Acts 8:36

As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?”

Acts 8:38

He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

1 Corinthians 12:13

For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Ephesians 3:8

Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”