Acts 1:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 3:11 : 11 “I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
  • Luke 3:16 : 16 John answered them all,“I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming– I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
  • Acts 2:1-4 : 1 The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
  • Acts 11:15-16 : 15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
  • 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • Acts 10:45 : 45 The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,
  • John 1:31 : 31 I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”
  • Mark 1:8 : 8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
  • Joel 2:28-32 : 28 An Outpouring of the Spirit(3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have prophetic dreams; your young men will see visions. 29 Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days. 30 I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth– blood, fire, and columns of smoke. 31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day! 32 It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the LORD has promised; the remnant will be those whom the LORD will call.
  • Joel 3:18 : 18 On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
  • Acts 2:16-21 : 16 But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel: 17 ‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says,‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke. 20 The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 21 And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
  • Acts 19:4 : 4 Paul said,“John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 1:8-10
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    8I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

    9The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.

    10And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

  • Acts 11:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

    15Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

    16And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

  • Acts 1:4
    80%

    4While he was with them, he declared,“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

  • Luke 3:16
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    16John answered them all,“I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming– I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

  • Matt 3:11
    78%

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

  • Acts 1:8
    78%

    8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

  • Acts 10:47-48
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    77%

    47“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

    48So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

  • Acts 2:38
    77%

    38Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  • John 1:31-33
    3 verses
    77%

    31I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

    32Then John testified,“I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

    33And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining– this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

  • Acts 8:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.

    16(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

    17Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.

  • John 7:39
    76%

    39(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

  • Acts 19:2-6
    5 verses
    76%

    2and said to them,“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied,“No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

    3So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

    4Paul said,“John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

    5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,

    6and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.

  • John 1:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25So they asked John,“Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

    26John answered them,“I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

  • Luke 24:49
    74%

    49And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

  • Acts 1:2
    74%

    2until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

  • Matt 3:16
    73%

    16After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

  • John 3:22
    73%

    22Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • Matt 3:13
    73%

    13The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

  • Acts 2:4
    73%

    4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

  • Acts 22:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

    16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

  • Acts 1:6
    73%

    6So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him,“Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

  • Acts 2:16
    73%

    16But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

  • Acts 13:24
    72%

    24Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

  • John 4:2
    72%

    2(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

  • Acts 2:33
    72%

    33So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

  • John 3:5
    72%

    5Jesus answered,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

  • 1 Cor 1:15
    71%

    15so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!

  • Acts 2:1
    71%

    1The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

  • Mark 1:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

    5People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

  • John 20:22
    71%

    22And after he said this, he breathed on them and said,“Receive the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 John 5:6
    70%

    6Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

  • John 3:26
    70%

    26So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

  • Mark 16:16
    70%

    16The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

  • Acts 1:22
    70%

    22beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us– one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

  • Acts 10:44
    70%

    44The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.