Mark 1:8
6 John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
7 And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
10 As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
- KJV
- I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
- WEB
- I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
- ASV
- I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
- DARBY
- *I* indeed have baptised you with water, but *he* shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit.
- BLB
- I baptized you⁺ in water, but He will baptize you⁺ in the Holy Spirit.”
- ÅB
- Jeg har døpt dere med vann, men han skal døpe dere med den Hellige Ånd.
- OTB
- Jeg døper dere med vann, men han skal døpe dere med Den Hellige Ånd.”
- B1930
- Jeg har døpt eder med vann, men han skal døpe eder med den Hellige Ånd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 1:5
For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextActs 19:4–6
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.”
Read in contextActs 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Read in contextActs 10:45
All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
Read in contextJoel 2:28
And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Read in contextActs 11:15–16
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
Read in contextEzekiel 36:25–27
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
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