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.

16 John answered, and said to them all, (A)Indeed I baptize you with water, but one stronger than I, cometh, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose: he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

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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.

And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speak with [a]other tongues, as the [b]Spirit gave them utterance.

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  1. Acts 2:4 He calleth them other tongues, which were not the same which the Apostles used commonly, and Mark calleth them new tongues.
  2. Acts 2:4 Hereby were understood that the Apostles used not now one tongue, and then another by haphazard and at all adventure, or as fantastical men used to do, but with good consideration of their hearers: and to be short, that they spake nothing but as the holy Ghost governed their tongues.

11 Cretes, and Arabians: we heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

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16 But this is that, which was spoken by the [a]Prophet (A)Joel,

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  1. Acts 2:16 There is nothing that can dissolve questions and doubts, but testimonies taken out of the Prophets: for men’s reasons may be overturned, but God’s voice cannot be overturned.

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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