Bible Strands
Mark 1:8
I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — John the Baptist addresses the crowds near the Jordan River, speaking immediately after describing the superiority of the One who follows him. The words — The Greek αὐτὸς (autos, "He himself") and δὲ (de, "however") grammatically pivot the statement from the speaker’s action to the coming figure’s action. The thread — The water versus Spirit baptism contrast appears in Acts 1:5, and the resulting unity of believers in one body is outlined in 1 Corinthians 12:13. Why it lands — The text explicitly separates John’s preparatory rite from the superior, Spirit-empowered work of the coming One, demanding recognition of that distinction.
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The Greek words
King James Version
I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Cross-references
- Acts 1:5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
- 1 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.
- Acts 19:4 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.”
- Joel 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.
- Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
- Acts 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.
- Acts 11:15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
- Ezekiel 36:25 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.
- Proverbs 1:23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
- Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.