I immerse you (PL) in a mikveh with water for repentance; but this one, who comes after me, is stronger than I, who I am not worthy carried in his shoes; he will you (PL) immerse do in a mikveh with the Spirit the Holy and with fire.
this is also a prefigurement of the mikveh, which saves you (PL) now, not the removal of impurity from the body, but the desire/request for a good conscience in relation to Hashem, through the standing up again (from the dead) of Yehoshua the Moshiach;
therefore is it actually was necessary, that the patterns of the heavenly things should cleansed be with the these, however the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices, than the these.
but are, with foods and drink and various Jewish traditions mikvehs, of the flesh regulations, and were imposed until to the time of Restoration of the world.