'Water' in the Bible

“Lord, if it’s You,” Peter answered Him, “command me to come to You on the water.”

“Come!” He said.And climbing out of the boat, Peter started walking on the water and came toward Jesus.

“Lord,” he said, “have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely. He often falls into the fire and often into the water.

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”

I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

As soon as He came up out of the water, He saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending to Him like a dove.

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of My name, since you belong to the Messiah—I assure you: He will never lose his reward.

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him.

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to untie the strap of His sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

Turning to the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she, with her tears, has washed My feet and wiped them with her hair.

But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water?

‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’

“Listen,” He said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.

“I baptize with water,” John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know Him.

I didn’t know Him, but I came baptizing with water so He might be revealed to Israel.”

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained 20 or 30 gallons.

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

Within these lay a large number of the sick—blind, lame, and paralyzed [—waiting for the moving of the water,

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.

But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”

Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people,

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.

Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.

Jesus Christ—He is the One who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement.

The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven. It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water.

From his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river flowing after the woman, to sweep her away in a torrent.

He spoke with a loud voice: “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life.

Then he showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Both the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Anyone who hears should say, “Come!” And the one who is thirsty should come. Whoever desires should take the living water as a gift.