John 4:2
(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
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- Acts 10:48 : 48 So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.
- 1 Cor 1:13-17 : 13 Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name! 16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.
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1 Departure From Judea Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John
- John 3:22-265 verses81%
22 Further 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.
23 John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.
24 (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25 Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.
26 So 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!”
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3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
- Mark 1:8-92 verses75%
8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
9 The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.
- Matt 3:13-142 verses74%
13 The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.
14 But John tried to prevent him, saying,“I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”
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33 And 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.’
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25 So they asked John,“Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 John answered them,“I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,
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31 I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”
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2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
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15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!
16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)
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5 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
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18 Jesus and John the Baptist John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples
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28 These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.
- John 10:40-412 verses71%
40 Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.
41 Many came to him and began to say,“John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”
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30 Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
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11 Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
12 Cleansing the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
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2 Jesus and John the Baptist Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:
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2 Simon Peter, Thomas(called Didymus), Nathanael(who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.
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4 In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 People 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.
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5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.
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4 John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people?”
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6 and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
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35 Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.
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13 Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
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22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.
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12 Preaching in Galilee Now when Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, he went into Galilee.
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14 The Superiority of the New Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked,“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
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3 So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.
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.”
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8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
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16 After 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.
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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.)
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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.
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7 Crowds by the Sea Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,
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29 (Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
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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.’
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7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.
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37 When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
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9 When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from(though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom