Acts 2:38

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Summary

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Be

1 Peter 3:21

In

And ye

Acts 2:16

Acts 8:15

Acts 10:44

General references

Luke 5:32

John 20:23

Bible References

Be

as they pursued their journey, they came to a place of water: and the eunuch said, see, here is water; what should hinder my being baptized?

so that having been baptized with her family, she made us this request, if you think me sincere in my profession, pray come and lodge at my house; and she prevail'd upon us.

why should you now delay? arise, be baptized, and cleansed from your sins, by invoking the name of the Lord.

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

thus baptism, which corresponds to the deluge, does now save us, not as it is a cleansing from external filth, but as it is an engagement to lead a divine life, from the belief of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

In

but when they had embraced the doctrine of Philip, concerning the kingdom of the Messias, and the authority of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

so he directed they should be baptized in the name of the Lord. after which they desired him to stay some time with them.

upon which Paul said, John indeed administer'd the baptism of repentance, but with this admonition, that they should believe in him, who was to come after, that is, in Jesus the Messias.

go and instruct all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost:

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

and I of Christ." is the school of Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

And ye

but this is the accomplishment of what was said by the prophet Joel,

who upon their arrival, prayed for them that they might receive the holy spirit.

Peter was yet speaking, when the holy spirit descended on all that heard him.

General references

I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples,

whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye leave unpardoned, they are lest unpardoned."