Acts 1:5

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“For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.””

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BSBPD

“For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“for John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit--after not many days.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 1:5 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joel 2:28And 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.
  2. Joel 3:18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
  3. Matthew 3:11I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
  4. Mark 1:8I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
  5. Luke 3:16John 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.
  6. John 1:31I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
  7. Acts 2:1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
  8. Acts 2:16No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
  9. Acts 10:45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
  10. Acts 11:15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
  11. Acts 19:4Paul 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.”
  12. 1 Corinthians 12:13For 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.
  13. Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

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