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.

And when Jesus was baptized, he went right up out of the water, and the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God come down like a dove and light upon him,

And he said to them, "Begone!" And they came out and went into the pigs. And suddenly the whole drove rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the water.

And no one who will give the humblest of my disciples even a cup of cold water because he is my disciple, I tell you, can ever fail of his reward."

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment.

to fulfil what was said by the prophet, "I will open my mouth in figures, I will utter things that have been hidden since the creation."

Peter answered, "If it is you, Master, order me to come to you on the water."

And he said, "Come!" And Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and went to Jesus.

"Master, take pity on my son, for he has epilepsy, and is very wretched; he often falls into the fire or into the water.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.

When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but that a riot was beginning instead, he took some water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

I have baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the holy Spirit."

And just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter into him,

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

and his clothes shone whiter than any earthly bleaching could make them.

"From his childhood, and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to put an end to him. But if there is anything you can do, take pity on us and help us!"

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I tell you, will certainly not fail to be repaid.

So he sent away two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

John said to them all, "I am only baptizing you in water, but someone is coming who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to untie. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.

When he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Push out into deep water, and then put down your nets for a haul."

And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

And they went to him and woke him up, and said to him, "Master! Master! We are lost!" Then he awoke and reproved the wind and the rough water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

And he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and amazed, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For he gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey him!"

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

And he called to him and said, 'Father Abraham! take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in torment, here in the flames!'

He said to them, "Just after you enter the city, you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him to the house to which he goes,

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.

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water."

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.

rose from the table, took off his outer clothing, and fastened a towel about his waist.

Then he poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, wiping them with the towel that was about his waist.

but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into his side, and blood and water immediately flowed out.

"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."

and they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to say in foreign languages whatever the Spirit prompted them to utter.

And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and give your slaves the power to utter your message fearlessly,

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

So he ordered the car to stop, and Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,

"Can anyone refuse the use of water to baptize these people when they have received the holy Spirit just as we did?"

and I remembered the saying of the Lord, 'John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the holy Spirit.'

When he knocked at the outer door, a maid named Rhoda came to answer it,

Having lawsuits with one another at all means your utter failure, to begin with. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be robbed?

So if you in your ecstatic speaking utter words no one can understand, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the empty air!

For if you utter blessings in ecstatic speech, how is an ordinary man to say Amen to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

for to all the promises of God he supplies the "Yes" that confirms them. That is why we utter the "Amen" through him, when we give glory to God.

to the one, a deathly, deadly odor, to the other a vital, life-giving one. Who is qualified for this task? I am!

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day.

to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him,

Stop drinking nothing but water; take a little wine for the good of your digestion and for your frequent attacks of illness.

For a tent was erected, with the lamp and the table and the presentation bread in the outer part, which was called the sanctuary.

With these arrangements for worship, the priests used constantly to go into the outer part of the tent, in the performance of their rites,

In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing.

For when Moses had told all the regulations of the Law to all the people, he took calves' and goats' blood, along with water, crimson wool, and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled the roll of the Law and all the people,

let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

Does a spring pour forth fresh and brackish water from the same crevice?

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grape vine figs? A salt spring cannot give fresh water.

who had once been disobedient, when in Noah's time God in his patience waited for the ark to be made ready, in which a few people, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven before the storm, and they are doomed to utter darkness.

They utter arrogant nonsense and use physical cravings to lure into immorality men who are just escaping from among those who live in error;

For they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,

by which also that world was destroyed, through being flooded with water.

It was he, Jesus Christ himself, who came in water and in blood; not in water only, but in water and in blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, for the Spirit is truth.

the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are at one.

wild sea waves foaming up their own shame; wandering stars doomed forever to utter darkness.

for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from the sky a great star blazing like a torch, and it fell upon one third of the streams and the springs of water.

Then the serpent poured water from his mouth after the woman like a river, to sweep her away.

It was allowed to utter great boasts and blasphemies, and to exert authority for forty-two months.

and they have never been known to utter a lie; they are irreproachable.

He cried in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour for his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water."

The third emptied his bowl upon the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

It is all over!" he told me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end I will give anyone who is thirsty water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which issued from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

"Come," say the Spirit and the bride. Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wants it come and take without cost living water.