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

The Baptism of Jesus

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

The Baptism of Jesus

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,

Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”

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

(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!

was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”

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

you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:

Before his coming, John had proclaimed 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.”

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

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order 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 with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,