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Acts 19:3

John

1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples

2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.

4 Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

5 On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.
KJV
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
WEB
He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
ASV
And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John`s baptism.
DARBY
And he said, To what then were ye baptised? And they said, To the baptism of John.
BLB
And he said, “Into what, then, were you⁺ baptized?” And they said, “Into John's baptism.”
ÅB
Han sa da: Hva dåp ble dere da døpt med? De sa: Med Johannes' dåp.
OTB
Paulus spurte da: «Hva ble dere da døpt med?» De svarte: «Med Johannes' dåp.»
B1930
Han sa da: Hvad dåp blev I da døpt med? De sa: Med Johannes' dåp.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Acts 18:25

    He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

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  • Matthew 3:1–17

    In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

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  • Acts 8:16

    For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

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  • Luke 3:1–38

    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

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  • 1 Corinthians 12:13

    For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

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  • Matthew 28:19

    Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

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