Mark 1:8

8 I immersed you in water, but he will immerse you in the Ruach HaKodesh."

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 Yochanan was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.

7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

8 I immersed you in water, but he will immerse you in the Ruach HaKodesh."

9 It happened in those days, that Yeshua came from Natzeret of the Galil, and was immersed by Yochanan in the Yarden.

10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.