Mark 1:8

8 I have baptized you with^[a] water, but He will baptize you with^[b] the Holy Spirit."

Mark 1:8 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 1:8

I indeed have baptized you with water
This was spoken to the baptized persons, partly to take off their dependence upon him and his baptism; and partly to direct their views to Christ, from whom the gifts and graces of the Spirit are alone to be had:

but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost;
(See Gill on Matthew 3:11). One copy adds, "and with fire", as there: a Jewish writer says, the holy blessed God baptizeth with fire, and the wise shall understand ^F16.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 R. Menachem in Lev. viii. apud Ainsworth on Gen. xvii. 12.

Mark 1:8 In-Context

6 John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

7 He was preaching: "Someone more powerful than I will come after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals.

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

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

10 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.

Footnotes

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