Mark 1:8

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

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 And John was clothed camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.

7 And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

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

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

10 And forthwith coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens open and the Spirit as a dove descending and remaining on him.