Luke 3:16

World English Bible (2000)

John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

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  • Acts 1:5 : 5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
  • John 1:26 : 26 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
  • John 1:33 : 33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
  • Matt 3:11 : 11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
  • Mark 1:7-8 : 7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. 8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
  • Joel 2:28-29 : 28 "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. 29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.
  • Acts 11:15-16 : 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
  • Acts 19:4-5 : 4 Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus." 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap; 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
  • Acts 13:24-25 : 24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel. 25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
  • John 7:38 : 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
  • Acts 2:3-4 : 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
  • Acts 2:17-18 : 17 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. 18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
  • Acts 10:44 : 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
  • Prov 1:23 : 23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
  • Isa 4:4 : 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
  • Isa 32:15 : 15 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
  • Isa 44:3-4 : 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: 4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
  • Ezek 36:25 : 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

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    10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

    11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

    12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

    14 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"

    15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

    16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

  • Mark 1:3-10
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    3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

    4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

    5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

    6 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

    7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

    8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

    9 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

    10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

  • John 1:25-28
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    25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

    26 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

    27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."

    28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

  • John 1:30-33
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    30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'

    31 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

    32 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

    33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Acts 1:5
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    5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

  • Luke 3:17
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    17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

  • Acts 11:16
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    16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Acts 13:24-25
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    24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

    25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

  • John 3:26
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    26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."

  • Luke 3:15
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    15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

  • Luke 12:49-50
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    49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

    50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

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    3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

  • Matt 3:3
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    3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."

  • Matt 3:1
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    1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

  • Acts 19:3-4
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    3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

    4 Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."

  • John 3:22
    72%

    22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

  • Matt 3:5-7
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    5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

    6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

    7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

  • Luke 3:7
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    7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

  • Luke 7:29
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    29 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.

  • Matt 11:10-11
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    10 For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

    11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

  • Luke 7:27
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    27 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

  • John 3:28
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    28 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

  • Luke 3:21
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    21 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

  • Mark 11:30
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    30 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

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    15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"