11 (A)[a]Indeed I baptize you with water to [b]amendment of life, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:11 We may neither dwell upon the signs which God hath ordained as means to lead us unto our salvation, neither upon them: but we must climb up to the matter itself, that is to say, to Christ, who inwardly worketh that effectually, which is outwardly signified unto us.
  2. Matthew 3:11 The outward sign putteth us in mind of this, that we must change our lives and become better, assuring us as by a seal, that we are engrafted into Christ; whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth up, Rom. 6:4.

(A)The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, is, Prepare the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

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26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there is one [a]among you, whom ye know not.

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  1. John 1:26 Whom all the world seeth not, and is even amongst you.

(A)For John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized [a]with the holy Ghost within these few days.

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  1. Acts 1:5 Either of the Father, or of me: so that either the Father or Christ is set here against John, as the holy Ghost is against the water, as things answerable the one to the other.

Therefore they that were scattered abroad, went to and fro preaching the word.

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16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, (A)John baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost.

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Then said Paul, (A)John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe in him, which should come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.

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