John 3:25
So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification.
John 2:6
Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.
Matthew 3:11
I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.
Mark 7:2-5
They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.
Mark 7:8
"You give up what God has commanded and hold fast to what men have handed down.
Hebrews 6:2
with the teaching of baptism and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.
Hebrews 9:10
since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.
Hebrews 9:13-14
For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically,
Hebrews 9:23
By such means, therefore, these things that were only copied from the originals in heaven had to be purified, but the heavenly originals themselves required far better sacrifices than these.
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)??hrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,