Mark 1:8

I immerse you in water; but he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

In Context

7and he preached, saying: There comes after me One mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

9And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was immersed by John in the Jordan.

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Cross References

Acts 1:5for John indeed immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.

Acts 2:17And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

Acts 11:15And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

Matthew Henry on Mark 1:2-9

Mark We have heard the evidence given in by the first witness to the doctrine and miracles of our Lord Jesus; and now here is another witness produced, who calls for our attention. The second living creature saith, Come, and see, Rev. vi. 3 . Now let us enquire a little, I. Concerning this witness. His name is Mark. Marcus was a Roman name, and a very common one, and yet we have no reason to think, but that he was by birth a Jew; but as Saul, when he went among the nations, took the Roman name of Paul, so he of… Read the whole commentary →

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