But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

The baptism of Johnwhere was it from? From heaven or from men?" And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?"

They said to him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized;

The baptism of Johnwas it from heaven or from men? Answer me."

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

(And when they heard him, all the people, even the tax collectors, justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

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

the baptism of Johnwas it from heaven or from men?"

beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from usone of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection."

You know what has happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:

Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus."

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

And corresponding to that, baptism now saves younot the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good consciencethrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,