Quotes About Baptism

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.

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

Johnís baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged Godís justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected Godís purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Johnís baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”

asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.

All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”

Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.

I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ëThe man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.í

After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.

So Johnís disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”