But when John saw that many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for baptism, he said: "O brood of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

John's baptism, whence was it, from heaven or from man?" So they began debating about it among themselves.

In the desert came John who baptized, and preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

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

They answered him, "We can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with shall you be baptized,

The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me!"

And John went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;

but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.

"Would it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!

"Was John's baptism from heaven or from man?"

John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many streams there, and people kept coming to receive baptism.

from his baptism by John down to the day on which he was taken up from us, one should join us a witness to his resurrection."

And Simon himself also believed, and after his baptism he remained with Philip, and was full of amazement as he beheld the signs and striking miracles which were performed.

"you know the message spread throughout all Judea, beginning in Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Then Peter said, "Can any one refuse water for the baptism of these men who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?"

"before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

"Into what, then, were you baptized?" he asked. And they said, "Into the baptism of John."

"John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance," answered Paul, "telling the people to believe on One who was coming after him, namely, on Jesus."

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.

Baptism, the counterpart of that, now saves you (not the washing off of the filth of the flesh, but the prayer for a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.