But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O ye broods of vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

And Jesus, after his baptism, came straight from the water: and lo! the heavens were opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as it were a dove, and coming upon him:

Then Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I am going to drink, and be baptised with the baptism with which I am baptised? They say unto him, We are able.

And he saith unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of my cup, and with the baptism with which I am baptised, shall ye be baptised; but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, it is not in my power to bestow, but on those, for whom it was prepared by my Father.

The baptism of John whence was it? from heaven, or from men? Hereupon they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we reply, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?

John was baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Then Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup which I drink? and be baptised with the baptism with which I am baptised?

And they said unto him, We are able. Then said Jesus unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup of which I drink; and be baptised with the baptism with which I am baptised:

The baptism of John, was it of heaven, or of men? answer me.

and he came into all the country on the confines of Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

And all the people when they heard it, and the publicans, glorified God, being baptised with the baptism of John.

But I have a baptism to be baptised with; and how am I distressed in spirit till it is finished!

The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

beginning from his baptism by John, until the day in which he was taken up from us, must there be chosen with us a witness of his resurrection, even one of these.

even that which was the common talk through all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

John having preached before his first coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

He was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught very diligently the things concerning the Lord, though knowing only the baptism of John.

And he asked them, Into what then were ye baptised? And they replied, Into John's baptism.

Then said Paul, John indeed baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people, That they should believe on him who was coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.

We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

buried with him in baptism, in which also ye have been raised up together with him by faith, the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

The antitype to which baptism now saveth us (not the mere removal of filth from the flesh, but the engagement of a good conscience to God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: